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

[NoflopsHomer]

Sorrel Mizzi is OUT.

He was all-in on a board but was likely to be to be drawing very thin against Michael Durrer's . Mizzi simply mucked as the turn and river came and . Hevad 'Rain' Khan told me he thought Mizzi probably had Jacks as he would've have flipped a set over as he still had outs.

Here is the Canadian about 2 minutes pre knockout.




Elsewhere Dani Stern almost had a double through but missed his freeroll with vs the of Mark Bartlog on a board when the river came an anti-climatic .



Mike McDonald just knocked Richard Toth with Ace King against Ace Queen.



It's funny but all these things actually happened as I go to their respective tables. I'm like a lightning rod for action I guess.

[NoflopsHomer]

Travis Bickle Ramzi Jelassi raises to 400 and gets 3 callers, including big blind Dave Colclough. The flop is checked all the way around, before Ramzi takes a 1.1k stab on the turn to take the pot down and shows the drawtastic .

[danafish]

Thomas Wahlroos is doing well on about 20k.
Also I found Ramzi Jelassi, doing a little less well on about 5k.
Also on about 5k is Jeff Lisandro.

Meanwhile no change for Michael Martin and Chris Bush, sitting on 4k and 8k respectively.

Richard Ashby has lost a pretty big pot against Mateyboy's pocket jacks on a board, but is still doing fine on about 12k.

Across the room, Katja Thater is not happy after her raise to 600 preflop was met with a reraise to 2200 by a gent two seats to her left and she folded.

[NoflopsHomer]

Thomas 'the Eggman' Wahlroos chip height of 20k can pretty much be explained by one hand. He had Aces, found a caller with Ace Seven. The flop was A-7-x. You do the math(s). (The 's' is optional depending on you being in Europe or the states).

Johann Storakers was given a full double up by Christophe Defforey, the former pushing for his last 7,275 into a 10k pot on a board with and getting called by an unlikely sending the Scandie up to around 25k. Thewy, on the same table managed to double with Queens against Kings.

[NoflopsHomer]

Glittering Cash Prizes (in Euros):

1   670,800
2   375,000
3   225,000
4   160,820
5   132,900
6   105,000
7   83,600
8   60,000
9   38,600
10   38,600
11   30,000
12   30,000
13   25,700
14   25,700
15   19,300
16   19,300
17   12,860
18   12,860
19   12,860
20   12,860
21   12,860
22   12,860
23   12,860
24   12,860

[danafish]

Tales of the shortstacks now...

Andy Black is on about 4.5k, and was attempting to get members of the press to bring him food. He was failing.

Roland De Wolfe meanwhile is sitting on a 2k microstack, periodically looking around the room like he wants to leave already.

[danafish]

Found Mark Vos chatting to Roman Yitzhaki on the stairs. I asked if he was out, but he is apparently not. Still on about 4.5k, he is demoralised owing to a gent on his table who may or may not be Theo Jorgensen continually outplaying him, and doesn't want to play any more. "I'm putting out a hit on him," says Mark.

Roman however is cheerful on about 15k. I tell him that someone on here has being enquiring after his progress. Says Mark, "It's a hot chick." I say, it could be, I really don't know. Wide-eyed, Roman says, "Seriously??" So Mr or Ms TheReader, if you are indeed a hot chick, you may be in with a chance...

[danafish]

Owner of the largest comic book collection in Norway, Mr Andreas Hoivold, currently on around 12k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Matt, is this your guy? If so, he's on around 8k at the moment.



Ram and Dave, the former with a dispassionate look on his face despite just taking down a 6k pot with a 3k bet on the river of a board



Last years highest placed Brit here was Peter Gould, but he was just forced to pass to Catlady's bet on the river here.

[NoflopsHomer]

Patric Antonius just added another 10k or so to his stack. Sometimes it can be easier to read from the rail whether someone is weak or strong but with Antonius, I don't think anyone knows when he's strong or not. After an midposition limper Antonius for 200 tried to raise to to 1,200 but it was counted as a string-raise and he could only make it 400. After a few minutes discussion with the TD and the big blind coming out in support of Antonius saying he'd been able to get away with the same thing earlier on a different table.

Anyway, the big blind and limper both called the raise.

Flop:



BB checks, limper bets 1,200, Antonius calls and the BB folds.

Turn:



Limper checks, Antonius bets 2,600 and the limper calls.

River:



Limper checks, Antonius bets 7,600, the limper calls quickly. Antonius quietly says, "Straight," flipping over to take a 22k pot.

Andy Black, Annette Obrestad and John Kabbaj are all OUT. (The last of these running into Aces two hands in a row). Also MIA is Dani Stern who is no longer in his seat.

[danafish]

As Good As Out is Roland De Wolfe. He had one chip left last I saw. And not even a good chip, it was one of the crappy 100s. Here he is. With his chip. Sitting in his chair. And then looking just crazy. I guess he might still be in. It's possible...

[danafish]

I guess they're back from their 10 minute break now, so blinds are 150/300, with 209 players left in. We'll be playing two more levels tonight.

[danafish]

Last hand before the break, Ramzi got involved with a Mateyboy on a   flop - Matey bet 500, and Ramzi called.

The turn came the - Matey bet 700, and Ramzi called, looking for a split second just a little bit hesitant, like he might fold or raise instead. But he called.

River - - and Ramzi bet 1500. "Ohhh noooo," says Matey, whose accent I like very much. "He has a seeex!" And Matey folds.

[NoflopsHomer]

187 players remain, we're almost onto what we're being told is the last level of the day, (150/300/25). Thomas Walhroos is over 35k now.

He made it 800 to go in early position, a gentleman to his left called leaving just 1400(!) behind, the big blind also called.

Flop:



BB checks, Wahlroos checks, shorty moves in. BB folds, Wahlroos shrugs and throws in the 1,400 like the small change it is and flips over his . Shorty shows .

Turn:



"Ooooh, now you're in trouble," exclaims the Eggman.

River:



"With my luck, I was a favourite on the turn," he tells Thor Hansen before adding, once the departee had er..departed. "He played it so badly he deserved to lose."

[danafish]

It's People I Don't Know Who They Are time now.

Ram Vaswani raises to 800, but folds when this be-ponytailed gent makes it 2500 from the button. Can anyone shed any light on his identity?



Also this guy below called Barry Greenstein's chunky bet on a flop. The turn came and Barry bet 2k; the Mateyboy below made it 4.5k and Barry folded. Prize for anyone who knows who it is! (Prize may or may not actually exist.)



Patrik Antonius won an enormous pot against the below Paradise Poker be-shirted gentleman. Not sure exactly how quite so many chips made their way into the pot, as he had Queen-high to Patrik's pair of Aces. I think he may have had an Accident.



On Table Wahlroos, Mr Wahlroos made a raise only for the owner of the incredible jacket below (doesn't it look like some kind of scarlet letter equivalent, like he has to wear it for crimes in his country?) to reraise. "Is so bad, this hand," says Wahlroos, folding  face up.