Pokerstars.com Baden EPT: Day 1 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Hello!

Play from the Pokerstars.com EPT Baden begins at 6pm, (5pm UK time). This is the 'lite' thread and will just have the bare facts and reports from updaters. To ask questions or for info on players, please post in the interactive update here: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=27934.0

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Play has now started!

Among those spotted so far is Julian Thew, sharing a table with Vanessa Rousso and Barry Greenstein. In fact Julian has already, in his words, donked off 4k to Mr Greenstein, apparently with pocket jacks on Q-Q-x flop - Greenstein rivered a flush to take it. "Vengeance will be mine!" says Julian.

Also seen Matt Tyler, currently sharing a table with Barny Boatman. Rumours travel faster than light here - he asked after the state of my head following the party last night. I am just fine, thank you. Although I might have some coffee shortly.

All the requested North Americans have been spotted too, with the exception of Aurangzeb Sheikh. I guess he's on his way though. Floppy's got some photos of the rest of them, just about to be uploaded. Other fashionably late arrivals include Roland De Wolfe, unable to find his seat on the plan owing to a late buy-in, and Richard Ashby, climbing the stairs to the Festsaal (it's a party in there!) as I was heading back down.

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At the moment the number of players is teetering on the brink of being 290, so anyone choosing over 350+, you're out of the running in the competition. Anyone who chose over 400 hadn't obviously checked the EPT website that said Baden has a 400 max capacity.

Anyway, onto the photos:

Aurangzeb Sheikh



Roman Yitzhaki



Steve Billirakis

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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...

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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.

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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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Mr Richard Ashby, he of the fashionable lateness, is currently sharing a table with the also fashionable Marcel Luske, and taking his fashionable chips off of him too.

On a board of with an absolute bunch (the technical term) of chips already in the pot, Ashby bets 2500 and Luske folds, giving up the big ol' (also a technical term) pot to Ashby.

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The table of Barcelona winner Sander Lyloff looks tough. As well as Marcel Luske and Richard Ashby being on this table, the EPT champ also has to contend with Phillip 'Clap Yours Hands Say' Yeh



And here is Jeff Lisandro, obviously he has a kids' party to do afterwards.

[NoflopsHomer]

The full list of runners, thanks to Mad and Pokerstars.

Grigore Dan   Adamescu
Andre   Akkari
Anton   Allemann
Juan   Alvarado
Ali Asghar   Amirfatahi
Mads   Andersen
Christopher   Andler
Patrik   Antonius
Donny   Ariel
Christian   Aris
Richard   Ashby
Marcel   Baran
Mark   Bartlog
Marko   Batanjac
Jan   Bendik
Thomas   Bentham
Christophe   Benzimra
Ezana   Bernth
Steve   Billirakis
Robert   Binelli
Balazs Gergely   Biri
Andrew Fitzgerald   Black
Christopher   Black
Christiano   Blanco
Pavel   Blatny
Barnaby   Boatman
Noah Pierre   Boeken
Lars   Bonding
Ricardo Oscar   Braga Pinto De Sousa
Michael   Brandau
Chad   Brown
Michiel   Brummelhuis
Chris   Bush
Harald   Casagrande
Paul   Christoffersson
David   Colclough
Ugur   Coskun
Michael   Csango
Daniele   Cuomo
Krzysztof   Czerwinski
Mark   Dalimore
David   Daneshgar
Alioto   Dario
Eldos   Davlet
Roland   De Wolfe
Christophe   Defforey
Sandor   Demjan
Christian   Deuss
Carlo   Di Renzo
Thomas   Dolezal
Ivo   Donev
Denis   Drogaykin
Joep   Durkstra
Michael   Durrer
Bill   Edler
Sam   El Sayed
Morten   Erlandsen
Victor   Escudero Mellado
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson
Ilhan   Eyikat
Alexander   Fadeykin
Bonyadi   Farzad
Youssef   Fawaz
Johann   Fest
Giuseppe   Festa
Peter Graven   Fischer
Andreas   Fluri
Thomas   Fougeron
Baroukh   Fowzi
Hugo   Franca
Hector   Fuentes
Thomas   Fuller
Peter   Gelencser
Gianni   Giaroni
Jeffrey   Glaser
Michael   Gloning
Victor   Goossens
Joshua James   Gould
Peter Edward   Gould
Barry   Greenstein
Bertrand   Grospellier
Andreas   Hagen
Manfred   Hammer
Casper Dahl   Hansen
Christoffer Egemo   Hansen
Dennis Naci   Hansen
Thor   Hansen
Tommy Ernst   Hansen
Klaus   Haunschmidt
Olvedo Vincent   Heinze
Juha   Helppi
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch
Andreas   Hoeivold
Christian   Hohendorf
Robertus Hendrikus Bernardus   Hollink
Uffe   Holm
Soraya   Homam
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki
Roland   Huerbin
Mats Erik   Iremark
Martin   Jaeger
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers
Stefan   Jedlicka
Nikolaus   Jedlicka
Ramzi   Jelassi
Johnny Groenne   Jensen
Theo   Joergensen
Mikael   Johansson
Benjamin Charles   Johnson
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen
Jean Michel   Kabbaj
Henri   Kaesper
Denes Tamas   Kalo
P.   K.
Matthew Jonathan   Kay
Michael   Keiner
Hevad   Khan
Cort   Kibler Melby
Josef   Klinger
Horst   Koch
Josef   Kollarits
Erich   Kollmann
Gabor   Kovacs
Adrian   Koy
Heimo   Krainer
Andreas   Krause
Alexander   Kravchenko
Csaba   Kuremszki
Michael   Kwiek
Alexander   Lakhov
Thomas   Lamatsch
Florian   Langmann
Eric Pierre Francois   Larcheveque
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen
Edward   Lawson
Markus   Lehmann
Mikko Oskari   Lehtonen
Ang Pang   Leng
Nicolas   Levi
Adam   Levy
Jeffrey Dominic   Lisandro
Daniel   Lococo
Werner   Lorenzoni
Nikolay   Losev
Marcel   Luske
Sander   Lylloff
Daniel   Makowsky
Magnus   Mamsen
Andrea   Manganelli
Daniel   Mangas
Michael   Martin
Petr   Masojidek
Rino   Mathis
Zsolt Peter   Mayer
Acar   Mazlum
Riccardo   Mazzitelli
Michael Ian   Mcdonald
Nenad   Medic
Raul   Mestre Lleida
Jeppe   Mikkelsen
Dario   Minieri
Sorel Jay   Mizzi
Gyoergy   Moger
Jonas Petter   Molander
Rene   Mouritsen
Simon   Munoz
Marcus   Naalden
Ketul   Nathwani
Matthias   Neu
Thang   Nguyen
Soren   Nielsen
Istvan Zsolt   Novak
Alexander   Novikov
Annette   Obrestad
Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman
Jimmy   Oestensson
Mario   Oliva
Herbert   Otto
Richard   Otto
Mika Petri Sakari   Paasonen
Luca   Pagano
Seppo   Parkkinen
Manutscher   Parsian
Dan Bitsch   Pedersen
Diego   Perez Marco
Pascal Jean Didier   Perrault
Magnus   Persson
Mark Secher   Petersen
Jeffrey John   Petronack
Thanh   Pham
Dean   Plumley
Harald   Poeschl
Vladimir   Poleshchuk
Sorin   Posa
Mika Petteri   Puro
Gunnar   Rabe
Antoine   Rahal
Kalil   Rahal
Martin   Rask
Andreas   Rathje
Raoul Gilmar   Refos
Tobias   Reinkemeier
Voitto Aulis   Rintala
Johannes Marinus   Ritburg
Sebastian   Riviere
Vanessa   Rousso
Daan   Ruiter
Pier Paolo   Ruscalla
Sebastian   Ruthenberg
Jari   Salonen
Raymi   Sanchez Thoern
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey
Pier Luigi   Scatola
Adriaan   Schaap
Mark Raymond   Segal
Dao   Selin
Patrik   Selin
Luis David   Sevilla Petit
Vlado   Sevo
Aurangzeb   Sheikh
John   Shipley
Wolfgang   Simperl
Jan Olav   Sjaavik
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark
Damir   Skundric
Daniel Sascha   Smidt
Justin Charles   Smith
Alan Peter   Smurfit
Jani Tapani   Sointula
James   Solomon
David   Sonelin
Robert Christoffer Marcus   Sonesson
Jan   Sorensen
Olaf   Sperlich
Age   Spets
Christina   Stadel
Johannes      Steindl
Daniel   Stern
Matthias   Stieger
Danny   Stiegler
Armin   Stocker
Siegfried   Stockinger
Dieter   Stollenwerk
Michael   Stryhn
Daniel Otto   Studer
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar
Katja Sophie Spillum   Svendsen
Matteo   Taddia
Daniel   Tarnopol
Paul   Testud
Katja   Thater
Julian   Thew
Harald Franz   Thomaser
Miguel   Tier
Christian Dan   Toboc
Stig   Top Rasmussen
Richard   Toth
Konstantinos   Tsirakidis
Matthew   Tyler
Giannis   Typoas
Jiri   Vacek
Martin   Vallo
Thierry   Van Den Berg
Jorryt   Van Hoof
Johan   Van Til
Ram   Vaswani
Lex   Veldhuis
Roy   Von Der Locht
Jan Christoph   Von Halle
Mark Christopher   Vos
Thomas Arne Johannes   Wahlroos
Martin   Wendt
Marco   Witt
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh
Roman   Yitzhaki
Jukka Tapio   Ylitalo
Andrey   Zaichenko
Jacques   Zaicik
Lu Zhe   Zhang
Rein Roelof   Zijda
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic

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Or done by table number if you prefer.

Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman    1   1
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen    1   2
Nicolas   Levi    1   3
Paul   Testud    1   4
Noah Pierre   Boeken    1   5
Giannis   Typoas    1   6
Katja   Thater    1   7
Stig   Top Rasmussen    1   8
Andre   Akkari    1   9
Giuseppe   Festa    2   1
Csaba   Kuremszki    2   2
Roman   Yitzhaki    2   3
Michael   Keiner    2   4
Peter Graven   Fischer    2   5
Baroukh   Fowzi    2   6
Uffe   Holm    2   7
Casper Dahl   Hansen    2   8
Gunnar   Rabe    2   9
P.   K.   3   1
Magnus   Persson    3   2
Robert Christoffer Marcus   Sonesson    3   3
Ali Asghar   Amirfatahi    3   4
Andreas   Rathje    3   5
Diego   Perez Marco    3   6
Chad   Brown    3   7
Jeffrey   Glaser    3   8
Vlado   Sevo    3   9
Balazs Gergely   Biri    4   1
Annette   Obrestad    4   2
Tommy Ernst   Hansen    4   3
Mats Erik   Iremark    4   4
Sam   El Sayed    4   5
Alexander   Lakhov    4   6
Petr   Masojidek    4   7
Raul   Mestre Lleida    4   8
Aurangzeb   Sheikh    4   9
Zsolt Peter   Mayer    5   1
Michael   Brandau    5   2
Ivo   Donev    5   3
Dan Bitsch   Pedersen    5   4
Klaus   Haunschmidt    5   5
Adrian   Koy    5   6
Roy   Von Der Locht    5   7
Robertus Hendrikus Bernardus   Hollink    5   8
Andreas   Krause    5   9
Dennis Naci   Hansen    6   1
Michael   Kwiek    6   2
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki    6   3
Morten   Erlandsen    6   4
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar    6   5
Christian Dan   Toboc    6   6
Donny   Ariel    6   7
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen    6   8
Soraya   Homam    6   9
Andrew Fitzgerald   Black    7   1
Martin   Vallo    7   2
Johnny Groenne   Jensen    7   3
Ezana   Bernth    7   4
Hugo   Franca    7   5
Thomas Arne Johannes   Wahlroos    7   6
Jimmy   Oestensson    7   7
Thor   Hansen    7   8
Thomas   Fougeron    7   9
Thomas   Fuller    8   1
Jan   Bendik    8   2
Mads   Andersen    8   3
Martin   Jaeger    8   4
Cort   Kibler Melby    8   5
Mikael   Johansson    8   6
Carlo   Di Renzo    8   7
Paul   Christoffersson    8   8
Seppo   Parkkinen    8   9
Simon   Munoz    9   1
Daniel   Stern    9   2
Krzysztof   Czerwinski    9   3
Denes Tamas   Kalo    9   4
Christoffer Egemo   Hansen    9   5
Pier Luigi   Scatola    9   6
Ketul   Nathwani    9   7
Johan   Van Til    9   8
Mark   Bartlog    9   9
Richard   Toth    10   1
Sebastian   Ruthenberg    10   2
Michael Ian   Mcdonald    10   3
Chris   Bush    10   4
Mark Raymond   Segal    10   5
Harald   Poeschl    10   6
Voitto Aulis   Rintala    10   7
Magnus   Mamsen    10   8
Michael   Martin    10   9
Peter   Gelencser    11   1
Ricardo Oscar   Braga Pinto De Sousa    11   2
Sebastian   Riviere   11   3
Christian   Hohendorf    11   4
Jean Michel   Kabbaj    11   5
Nikolaus   Jedlicka    11   6
Jeffrey John   Petronack    11   7
Christophe   Benzimra    11   8
Jorryt   Van Hoof    11   9
Jari   Salonen    12   1
Istvan Zsolt   Novak    12   2
Robert   Binelli    12   3
Jani Tapani   Sointula    12   4
Daniel Otto   Studer    12   5
Peter Edward   Gould    12   6
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey    12   7
Olaf   Sperlich    12   8
Manutscher   Parsian   12   9
Katja Sophie Spillum   Svendsen    14   1
Raymi   Sanchez Thoern   14   2
Miguel   Tier    14   3
Armin   Stocker    14   4
Hector   Fuentes    14   5
Stefan   Jedlicka    14   6
Harald Franz   Thomaser    14   7
Jan Olav   Sjaavik    14   8
Martin   Rask    14   9
Daniel   Makowsky    15   1
Christopher   Black    15   2
Marcel   Baran    15   3
Marcus   Naalden    15   4
Riccardo   Mazzitelli    15   5
Rein Roelof   Zijda    15   6
Youssef   Fawaz    15   7
Wolfgang   Simperl    15   8
Joep   Durkstra    15   9
Matteo   Taddia    16   1
Ram   Vaswani   16   2
Nikolay   Losev    16   3
Sorin   Posa    16   4
Daniel   Mangas    16   5
Jeffrey Dominic   Lisandro    16   6
Jeppe   Mikkelsen    16   7
Pascal Jean Didier   Perrault    16   8
Justin Charles   Smith    16   9
Benjamin Charles   Johnson    17   1
Mark Christopher   Vos   17   2
Christina   Stadel    17   3
Theo   Joergensen    17   4
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson    17   5
Dao   Selin    17   6
Raoul Gilmar   Refos    17   7
Matthias   Neu    17   8
Daniel   Tarnopol    17   9
Mark   Dalimore    18   1
Dean   Plumley    18   2
Josef   Klinger    18   3
Vladimir   Poleshchuk    18   4
Victor   Escudero Mellado    18   5
Thierry   Van Den Berg    18   6
Roland   De Wolfe   18   7
Thanh   Pham    18   8
Jan Christoph   Von Halle    18   9
Julian   Thew    19   1
Nenad   Medic   19   2
Christophe   Defforey    19   3
Alexander   Fadeykin    19   4
Barry   Greenstein    19   5
Alioto   Dario    19   6
Jukka Tapio   Ylitalo    19   7
Richard   Otto    19   8
Vanessa   Rousso    19   9
Michiel   Brummelhuis    20   1
Mario   Oliva    20   2
Sorel Jay   Mizzi    20   3
Marko   Batanjac    20   4
Gyoergy   Moger    20   5
Hevad   Khan    20   6
Michael   Durrer    20   7
Josef   Kollarits    20   8
Victor   Goossens    20   9
Alexander   Kravchenko    21   1
Konstantinos   Tsirakidis    21   2
Mark Secher   Petersen    21   3
Lars   Bonding    21   4
Florian   Langmann    21   5
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch    21   6
Martin   Wendt    21   7
Bertrand   Grospellier    21   8
Pier Paolo   Ruscalla    21   9
Patrik   Selin    22   1
Matthias   Stieger    22   3
Ugur   Coskun   22   4
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh    22   5
Richard   Ashby   22   6
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic    22   7
Alan Peter   Smurfit    22   8
Marcel   Luske    22   9
Christian   Deuss    23   1
Dieter   Stollenwerk    23   2
Andrey   Zaichenko    23   3
Jiri   Vacek    23   4
Andrea   Manganelli    23   5
James   Solomon    23   6
Rino   Mathis    23   7
Patrik   Antonius    23   8
Siegfried   Stockinger    23   9
Bill   Edler    24   1
Jan   Sorensen    24   2
Age   Spets    24   3
Tobias   Reinkemeier    24   4
Harald   Casagrande    24   5
Andreas   Hagen    24   6
David   Sonelin    24   7
Ang Pang   Leng    24   8
Gianni   Giaroni    24   9
Daan   Ruiter    25   1
Joshua James   Gould    25   3
Erich   Kollmann    25   4
Marco   Witt    25   5
Mika Petteri   Puro    25   6
Adriaan   Schaap    25   7
Michael   Csango    25   8
Rene   Mouritsen    25   9
Thomas   Lamatsch    26   1
Pavel   Blatny    26   2
Dario   Minieri    26   3
Eric Pierre Francois   Larcheveque    26   4
Steve   Billirakis    26   5
Luis David   Sevilla Petit    26   6
Soren   Nielsen    26   7
Christopher   Andler    26   8
Antoine   Rahal    26   9
Acar   Mazlum    27   1
Matthew   Tyler    27   2
Lex   Veldhuis    27   4
David   Daneshgar    27   5
Alexander   Novikov    27   6
Daniele   Cuomo    27   7
Herbert   Otto    27   8
Barnaby   Boatman    27   9
Horst   Koch    28   1
David   Colclough    28   2
Gabor   Kovacs    28   3
Michael   Gloning    28   4
Mikko Oskari   Lehtonen    28   5
Daniel Sascha   Smidt    28   6
Anton   Allemann    28   7
Jacques   Zaicik    28   8
Edward   Lawson    28   9
Olvedo Vincent   Heinze    29   1
Johannes Marinus   Ritburg    29   2
Bonyadi   Farzad    29   3
Denis   Drogaykin    29   4
Sandor   Demjan    29   5
Andreas   Fluri    29   6
Matthew Jonathan   Kay    29   7
Henri   Kaesper    29   9
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark    30   1
Heimo   Krainer    30   2
Mika Petri Sakari   Paasonen    30   3
Andreas   Hoeivold    30   4
Daniel   Lococo    30   5
Johannes      Steindl   30   7
Manfred   Hammer    30   8
Damir   Skundric    30   9
Adam   Levy    31   1
Juan   Alvarado    31   2
Werner   Lorenzoni    31   3
Christian   Aris    31   4
Grigore Dan   Adamescu    31   6
Michael   Stryhn    31   7
Johann   Fest    31   8
Ilhan   Eyikat    31   9
Jonas Petter   Molander    32   1
Christiano   Blanco    32   3
Eldos   Davlet    32   4
Luca   Pagano    32   5
Thang   Nguyen    32   6
Thomas   Bentham    32   7
Ramzi   Jelassi   32   8
Danny   Stiegler    32   9
Kalil   Rahal    33   1
Lu Zhe   Zhang   33   2
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers    33   3
Thomas   Dolezal    33   4
Sander   Lylloff    33   5
Juha   Helppi    33   6
Markus   Lehmann    33   7
John   Shipley    33   8
Roland   Huerbin    33   9

[NoflopsHomer]

In fact, I have the remnants of a Dani Stern hand from just before the break. It looked to be blind on blind but I'm not sure what the betting was preflop or post flop, but I saw him check the river of a board and saw the scrabbletastically named Krzysztof Czerwinski make an almost pot-sized bet of 3.6k through shaking hands. Stern ended up passing what would've cost pratically all his stack, so I think he roughly had about 4k left.

[danafish]

Chip updates - Chris Bush -- 8k and change
Michael Martin -- 4.25k
Julian Thew -- 5k
Matt Tyler -- 13k - "It's an easy table. Me and Barny are having a bit of a craic. The rest of them are miserable bastards. Quote me on that."
Barry Greenstein -- 20k+ big stack

258 players remain. I believe Vanessa Rousso is among the no-longer-playing contingent.