Pokerstars.com Baden EPT: Day 1 - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Chris Bush and Michael Martin are sharing a table, here they are in respective order.





Gotta say, Michael Martin looks a bit like 'Iceman' from Top Gun...

[TheReader23]

Wow, pictures already.....thanks so much.

TR23
PS.......I think Martin is better looking!!!! lol

[danafish]

Wow, pictures already.....thanks so much.

TR23
PS.......I think Martin is better looking!!!! lol

Talking of which, here's one for the lay-deeez.

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...And one for the gents. Should feline stylings be your thing.

[danafish]

Vanessa Rousso is down to less than 4k, partly the result of this accident against an as-yet-unnamed-owing-to-the-full-list-not-being-available-til-the-end-of-this-level Mateyboy.

Vanessa raises to 200 preflop and is called by two Maties. The flop is , and she bets out 600. The first Matey calls, and the second Matey raises another thousand - Vanessa calls and Other Matey folds. The turn is the , and Raiseyboy bets out 3200. Eventually Vanessa folds.

[NoflopsHomer]

Andy Black in interesting fold news now.



The small blind checks, the big blind bets 300, Black on the button makes it 675. The small blind now makes it 2,500. The big blind folds and Black passes face up after about 30 seconds dwell. Anyone justifying a fold here?

Also, it seems that people winning pots don't have to show their cards here. Noah Boeken called a 600 bet on the river of a board after a lengthy dwell, his opponent quickly mucked and Noah didn't show his cards either, though no-one on the table raised the issue. Seems the showing to take the pot rule changes everywhere you go...

[danafish]

And some assorted Spotted Personages - Mark Vos, Andy Black, Barny Boatman, Dave Colclough, Annette Obrestad, Thewy (pre-vengeance), and Matt Tyler.

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[danafish]

And the middle one of these nice trophy cup things is what they're all playing for. That and the big piles of cash money.

[Colchester Kev]

Does Matt Tyler have the roundest head in poker ??   

Thats almost a perfect circle !!

[snoopy1239]

That Annie Duke has really let herself go...

[danafish]

We thought for a brief moment that Dave Colclough was out, but it turns out he's not, he's just moved table, and he seem to have doubled up somewhere along the way too.

Meanwhile, of your Americans, Mr Reader, Michael Martin is on maybe 5k after unknown losses, Roman Yitzhaki is slightly up on his 10k starting stack, and Chris Bush is slightly down on his.

[danafish]

That Annie Duke has really let herself go...

Don't you say bad things about Annie Duke! Or the cat lady!

[snoopy1239]

Does Matt Tyler have the roundest head in poker ??   

Thats almost a perfect circle !!

I think David Smith is heaidng the field.

[danafish]

Does Matt Tyler have the roundest head in poker ??   

Thats almost a perfect circle !!

I honestly don't know. I'll keep an eye out for rounder.

Meanwhile he has been picking metaphorical fights with Barny Boatman. On an flop, Matt bets 1600 and Barny calls.

Turn - - they both check. The mood is thoughtful.

River - and they both check again. Matt is clearly relieved at the river-checkage from Barny as he shows his non-flushing  . "Yup," says Barny and mucks. "Pass the chips," says Matt in a friendly and non-grandstandy sort of way. The chips are duly passed.

[snoopy1239]

How about Jason Hackett from the recent London EPT.

He must get confused for the moon when it gets dark. Head and shoulders above Tyler, surely?

[NoflopsHomer]

Vanessa Rousso is OUT. The WCOOP ME 3rd place finisher had top pair and a flush draw against bottom set but missed.

Here's a pre-exit table photo.



Sometimes, I think titles can be lost in translation, I have no idea what these two stand for...



Not a face known to many in Europe, but this is Bill Edler, an American pro who has been knocking around for years but is in the purplest of purply patches. He won the $5k 6-handed event at the WSOP this year, took down a $10k buy-in heads up comp defeating Barry Greenstein and recently won a WPT title. So a good year then.