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

[snoopy1239]

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Play for Day 1B of the £5,200 Main Event commences at 1pm.


Here are the survivors from Day 1, Nicolas 'Hatpimp' Levi doing more than just surviving:

Levi   Nicolas   100,300
Mangas   Daniel   98,500
Moneymaker   Chris   79,700
Brandborn   Ola   73,100
Nagarajan   Vijayan   59,800
Wahlbeck   Ville   56,700
Gelencser   Peter   52,500
Spets   Age   50,800
Reeve   Martyn   50,000
Perrault   Pascal   49,400
Spiga   Johan   46,600
Jonson   Torbjorn   45,800
Boatman   Barny   45,300
Goodwin   Marc   43,000
Buzzigoli   Andrew   41,900
Colclough   David   39,000
Lind   Marcus   37,100
Cinar   Mehmet   36,300
Egan   Josh   36,200
Hackett   Jason   35,200
Martin   Bruno   33,300
Benzimra   Christophe   32,400
Plejdrup   Dennis   32,300
Petersen   Peter   31,100
Tran   Theo   30,100
Hagen   Andreas   29,700
Flood   Liam   27,200
Hardy   Anthony William   23,900
Nirmalananthan   Sutha   23,600
Mendes   Paul   23,100
Martin   Michael   22,500
Rogers   Jeffrey   22,200
Lundberg   Jon   21,700
Dijkstra   Dieter   20,800
Reihill   Shane   19,900
Lisandro   Jeffrey   18,700
Svensson   Niclas   16,400
Ruscalla   Pier Paolo   16,100
Mattsson   Per lennart   15,800
Greco   Michael   15,500
Vos   Mark   15,000
Toth   Richard   14,400
Strath   Henric   14,100
Smyth   Martin   13,600
Patel   Samir   13,500
Pinto De Sousa   Ricardo   12,900
Mattern   Arnaud   12,200
Andler   Christopher   11,900
Souffir   Stephane   11,800
Andersson   Mattias   11,600
Christoffersson   Paul   11,300
Svensson   Jonas   11,200
Bush   Chris   11,000
Comas   Rafael   10,600
Roeg   Nicky   10,500
Fressenon   Yanick   8,300
Nass   Kjetil   7,700
Sanford   Geoff   7,000
Katz   Nicholas James   6,800
Timoshenko   Yevgeniy   3,800

[Chili]

Afternoon everyone, still alive and back for Day 1B.  Just set up in the press room and about to go out into the abyss of the milling players to see what's happening.  I'll open with a list of unfinished and unconfirmed list of players so far in for today:

Abecassis   Michel   France
Abrahams   Javed   UK
Akenhead   James   UK
Alblas   Kees   Holland
Alterman   Paul   UK
Andras   Karkus   Hungary
Andrea   Andrew   
Antonius   Patrik   Finland
Ashby   Richard   UK
Baird   Gregory   USA
Bansi   Praz   UK
Baran   Marcel   Denmark
Beevers   Joe   UK
Bell   Andrew   UK
Bentham   Thomas   UK
Betson   Alan T M   Ireland
Bihl   Thomas   Germany
Billirakis   Steve   USA
Bjerregaard   Dennis   
Black   Andrew   Ireland
Blanco   Christiano   Italy
Bloom   Tony   UK
Boeken   Noah   Holland
Bonding   Lars   Denmark
Bonyadi   Farzad   USA
Boubli   Jan   France
Brecher   Steven   
Broadhurst   David   
Brolin   Tomas   Sweden
Bui   Nhi   Sweden
Cahill   Edward   
Campbell   Jonothan   
Cascarino   Tony   Ireland
Cavanagh   Martin   UK
Channing   Neil   UK
Chenue   Sebastien   France
Ciccoloni   Alfredo   Italy
Citrone   Carlo   UK
Clark   David   
Conroy   John   
Cook   Terry   
Cornmark   Magnus   Sweden
Cox   Ian   
Daneshgar   David   
Darcourt   Guillaume   
Davies   David   UK
De Knijff   Martin   Sweden
De Wolfe   Roland   UK
Delagorce   Guillaume   France
Demel   Priyan   UK
Demol   Maxime   France
Dempsey   James   UK
Dodet   Daniel   Belgium
Donohoe   Andrew   
Durkstra   Joep   
Duvall   Jeff   UK
Dyck   Skyler   Canada
Eichhardt   Peter   Sweden
Eldering   Kees   
Elias   Darren   USA
Eskilsson   Hans   
Evdakov   Nikolay   Russian
Feldman   Andrew   
Fields   Andrew   
Finney   David Charles   
Flusfeder   David   UK
Fougeron   Thomas   France
Fox   Stuart   UK
Frazer   Ian   UK
Friberg   Erik   Sweden
Gale   John   UK
Garza   Jeffrey   USA
Georgiou   Phidias   Cyprus
Gerin   Stephan   
Gilles   Thomas   USA
Gould   J   
Grech   Joseph   UK
Griffin   Gavin   USA
Grundy   Ben   UK
Hakenholz   Frederic   
Hansen   Thor   Norway
Hansen   Casper   
Hansson   Emil   Sweden
Harris   Sidney   
Haugen   Fredrik   Sweden
Hawkins   Keith   UK
Hedlund   Peter   Sweden
Helland   Arild   Sweden
Helppi   Juha   Finland
Hirsch   Yakov   USA
Hoang   Van   
Hopkins   Matthew   
Horne   Michael   UK
Jaspers   Joris   Holland
Jelassi   Ramzi   Sweden
Jelinek   Steve   UK
Jethi   Sean   
Johansson   Mikael   Sweden
Johansson   Simon   
Jones   Iwan   UK
Jorgensen   Theo   Denmark
Judah   Melvyn   UK
Katja   Svendsen   Denmark
Khaitan   Abhishek   
Khajuria   Chandrakant   
Khan   Hevad   USA
Kraues   Andreas   
Lacay   Ludovic   
Lagmannsgaard   Svein   Norway
Langmann   Florian   
Leckey   Paul   
Lee   Redmond   UK
Lellouche   Anthony   France
Lieu   Liz   USA
Linton   Peter james   
Lovelady   Joey   
Lylloff   Sander   Denmark
Mahrenholz   Karl   UK
Mccormack   Francis   
Mehrmand   Davood   Germany
Moorman   Chris   
Mouawad   Joseph   Lebanon
Muir   Vincent   
Murphy   John   
Nagrecha   N   
Nash   Stuart   UK
Nathwani   Ketu   UK
Nawab   M   
Negreanu   Daniel   Canada
Neu   Matthias   Germany
Nguyen   Thang   Germany
Obrobac   David   
Oconnell   Kevin   
Orpe   Michelle   
Paasisalo   Jarkko   Finland
Paasonen   Mika   Finland
Palanca   Manuel   UK
Parker   John   
Paruszewski   Piotr   Poland
Persaud   Nikhil   UK
Pescatori   Massimiliano   Italy
Phillips   Antony   
Pilkington   Lewis   UK
Prescott   Brian   UK
Puro   Mika   Finland
Pystynen   Antti   Finland
Rahal   Kalil   France
Rahal   Samir   France
Rasmussen   Stig   Germany
Reardon   Trevor   UK
Renoldi   Simon   
Riviere   Sebastian   Sweden
Roberts   Benjamin   
Romanello   Roberto   UK
Rudling   Doug   UK
Ruthenberg   Sebastian   Germany
Rutter   Stuart   UK
Rybachenko   S   Russia
Saarisilta   Nichlas   Sweden
Santos   Andre   Portugal
Segal   Mark   
Sepede   Maurizio   
Shipley   John   UK
Sjavik   Jan   Norway
Smidt   Daniel   Holland
Smurfit   Peter   Ireland
Sokrati   Chris   UK
Sonelin   David   Sweden
Sonesson   Cristoffer   Sweden
Soulier   Fabrice   France
steindl   johannes   Austria
Stevic   Alexander   Sweden
Stoneham   Adam   UK
Sunar   Surinder   UK
Sverrison   Halldor   Denmark
Teng   Andrew   
Thew   Julian   UK
Thorson   William   Sweden
Tibulca   Alex   
Tollund   Thomas   Denmark
Trinh   Lam   
Van Den Berg Thierry   Holland
Vanrijn   Dennis   
Vanzadelhof   Steven   
Vaswani   Ram   UK
Vathne   Aleksander   Norway
Vinson   Alan   UK
Vogl   James   UK
Wahlroos   Thomas   Finland
Waring   Mark   
Whybrew   Robert   
Wolfer   Thomas   
Wong   Ken   China
Woodley   Ian   UK
Wooldridge   Warren   UK
Yitzhaki   Roman   USA
Zaichenko   Audrey   Russia
Zolotow   Stephen   USA
Zurbin   Eduard   

[snoopy1239]

The breaking news on the sometimes shaky mediaroom grapevine is that Juha Helppi is the first exit of the day, all-in with Aces but being bust by Queens. If everyone in the mediaroom agrees up on the it surely becomes fact, no?

Thang Nguyen is also OUT.

[snoopy1239]

I'm unsure as to how he dropped so low but the Eggman Thomas Walhroos has just doubled up... although only up to 2,950 (!)

It was a bit of an escape too, Wahlroos pushing in his shorstack with but running into the Pocket Kings ( ) of the ever-consistent Lutonian Paul Alterman. Although dominating, the board came to River The Eggman a straight, Alterman dropping his shoulders in frustration but probably equally glad that it wasn't for more chips.

[Chili]

Just managed to nab a list of seating positions and early table sharers are:

James Akenhaed
Thomas Bihl
Steve Billirakis

Praz Bansi
Andrew Bell
Tony Bloom
Steve Jelinek

Daniel Negreanu
Liz Lieu

Joey Lovelady
Peter Eichhardt
Stuart Rutter
Ram Vaswani

James "flushy" Dempsey
Martin Cavanagh
Warren Wooldridge

[snoopy1239]

The red-haired (for the moment) Gavin Griffin has just popped his American bracelet winning clogs, the Monte Carlo EPT Grand Final Champion finding the bullets (pow pow) but being flushed out by chatterbox Peter Hedlund.

With the Flop reading , the Swede's 500 raise was re-raised to 2k only for Hedlund to announce all-in. Griffin swiftly called only to be met by a rather menacing and potentially bad-beating .

As the Turn hit the River, Griffin rose from his seat like a jet propelled whippet, not willing to stay for the River and wanting to escape the table as quickly as possible.

Although battered and bruised worse than one armed boxer, Griffin was gentlemanly to wish his opponents good luck as he left while Hedlund happily stacked his chips for a virtual double up.

[Chili]

Adam Stoneham is also missing in action.  His AA was sitting pretty against Patrik Antonius's KK until he spiked a K on the turn, then shortly afterwards he AQ on a Q high flop but ran into the pocket rockets himself this time.

Chris Moorman was down to about 3k but is now sitting prettier on 8,150

[snoopy1239]

Adam Stoneham, who finalled a GUKPT recently, was eliminated moments before the break in circumstances that would make even some of the most stoic of faces wince as if receiving a full body wax.

After Patrik Antonius had limped under the gun, Adam raised it up with Aces and was flat called by the tennis coaching Fin. Both players checked a T-2-3 rainbow Flop, only for Patrik to move all-in over the top of Adam's 1,200 bet on the Six Turn.

Adam called and was shown a rather pleasing Kings, which quickly transformed joy into chagrin as it made trips on the soul-destroying King River.

Harsh one for Stoneham, but elation (although he's hardly going to show it) for Patrik.

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Although still plugging away, Steve Jelinek is ruing a call he made against mischievous Hit Squadder Praz Bansi. According to Jelinek, he hit a set of threes on a 3-7-T, smooth called a re-raise from Praz before checking the Jack Turn. With Praz also checking, Steve bet out 800 on the Jack River, but found himself calling a 2.2k re-raise from Praz who was sitting pretty with Quads.

"I could have folded," mused Steve, "but there's a decent chance that he has the straight or even Aces. I saw him play Aces that way later on."

[snoopy1239]

Stuart Nash is currently swimming along rather nicely with 20,900. He used the term "bits and pieces", but did relate one curious hand: "I had J-8, checked it down on a 3-3-T-7 board and bet 200 on the 9 River with my straight. My opponent chucked in 1k, and was asked if it was a raise or a call. He said it was a raise but Ian Frazer intervened and claimed it had to be a call. At that point, I used some experience and quickly said "I'll re-raise it to 2k. He called with A-3."

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With the break causing the players to swarm around the table like flies around... no, I won't say it, I managed to catch up with a few choice folk, one of whom was the gangly Mantis himself, Karl Mahrenholz.

"I'm on 19k, but haven't really played many big hands. I'm just secretly bashing them up, re-raising and not showing any big hands."

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Italian Stallion Christiano Blanco is on 7,500.

He remains in high spirits though.

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Keith Hawkins and John Shipley were both propping up the bar, although The Camel was inevitably the only one consuming any alcoholic beverages. After his six figure win in the recent PokerStars online event, John Shipley is riding the wave, but is yet to gather speed on his surfboard at this EPT with just 11k. A peak of 11.5k and a trough of 8.5k, "No hands" were the only words I could prise out of him. Keith, however, is hovering around the 20k mark having "flopped two sets and had Aces paid off."

[Chili]

Ok finally found John Murphy in swish PKR attire, he is good on 20,925.  He did have Thomas Wahlroos sat next to him but he went out just before the last 10 min break.  I was actually talking to someone and completely missed what happened to Wahlroos, so I went and completely made an ass of myself. 

On hearing Walhrools proclaim in my ears "I f...ing hate this game."  I then go and laugh and ask "How many chips do you have?"  He looks at me like I'm some nutter and says "ERM ZERO." 

Oopps THOMAS WAHLROOS OUT

[Chili]

Neil Channing 6,000
Stuart Fox  12,000
Pete Linton  17,000
Ian Frazer  8,700
Nick Persaud  6,500
Roland DeWolfe  10,000
Warren Wooldrige  14,500
Priyan DeMel  12,500
Stuart Rutter  5,200
Julian Thew  12,500
James Akenhead  2,850
Richard Ashby  5,000
Carlo Citrone  10,000

[snoopy1239]

Neil Channing is OUT. He was down to just 3.9k at the time, but found on a Flop and naturally shoved his chips over the line. Unfortunately, he was called by which managed to Turn a , followed by an academic River

Peter Eichhardt -- 3,725
Alexander Stevic -- 950
Martin De Kjniff -- 18,100
Patrik Antonius -- 19,150
Peter Hedlund -- 14,900
Roberto Romanello -- 17,500
Magnus Cormark -- 19,500
Ian Cox -- 12,375
John Murphy -- 17,900
Ian Frazer -- 11,350
Dave Clark -- 10,575
Stuart Nash -- 15,325
Ramzi Jelassi -- 8,275
Emil Hansson -- 7,000
Tony Bloom -- 9,750
Carlo Citrone -- 26,925
William Thorsson -- 9,500
Daniel Dodet -- 13,375
Trevor Reardon -- 7,350
Stuart Fox -- 11,000
Erik Friberg -- 18,975
Steven Van Zadelhoff -- 8,100
Anthony Feldman -- 9,325
Noah Boeken -- 13,700
Vathne -- 8,700
Javed Abrahams -- 5,600
Jeff Duvall -- 5,350
Liz Lieu -- 5,000
Daniel Negreanu -- 10,800
Tony Phillips -- 14,100
Theo Jorgensen -- 12,800
Roland de Wolfe -- 8,200
Michelle Orpe -- 6,750
Ben Roberts -- 11,650
Simon Johansson -- 7,000
Alan Vinson -- 9,275

[snoopy1239]

Bobble hatted charmer Theo Jorgensen, who is one of few players to final in multiple EPTs, has just been bitch slapped by Gutshot Series of Poker winner and part-time dealer Tony Phillips, the ginger ninja finding 6-7 versus K-K on a 6-x-6-A board. No King on the River.

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Also spotted at the bar, which is cutely doubling up as a rail this week, is Nik Persuad. A fearsome player when at his best, Nik seemed troubled by the encounter that halved his stack and was seemingly in two minds as to whether or not he could have got away from the hand. According to Nik (15k), the surprisingly sober Stuart Fox (8k) re-raised his late position raise from the blind before betting out 750 on a Flop. Nik didn't like this Flop, suggesting that he's been outdrawn by Queens or Tens and won't get paid by Jacks. However, the bet was small in relation to the pot, so Nik called. The Turn brought a blank, say, and once again Stuart bet out, this time 1,600. In an instant of deja vu, Nik called. The River was the , and with what was essentially the 4th bullet, Stuart fired one last time, pushing all his chips over the line. Nik reluctantly called, but was disappointed to be met by two Ladies for a set.

[Chili]

Quote from: fidget on Today at 06:12:06 pm
Any news on Chris Moorman?


Just seen him 2 mins ago and he still in there with 4,900
Flushy "luk box" Dempsey (his words)  25,200
Paul Alterman 16,000
Chris Sokrati "soxy"  7,900
Ben Grundy  15,000
Roberto Romanello  15,100

James Akenhead OUT

[Chili]

Julian Thew is as we speak pondering the cash games, went by about an hour again and he admitted to being a mere spectator on his table.  Well he had ticks to watch from Romanello & Grundy often clashing.  Anyhow, the button raised his BB to 2,200,  the small blind came along for the ride along with Julian who was holding Queens.  The flop came J high so the small blind goes all in.  Julian promptly calls and was rewarded by seeing AJ, that was until another J hit the turn that is.  "It happens" Julian says with a shrug.