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

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Julian Thew is up to 24k after his pocket Queens hit a Q-9-2 flop hard and and someone loved their inferior Q-J a little too much. "I played complete rubbish in the first level," says Julian. He has now yo-yo-ed himself into serious contention.

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Random Chipcounts -

Sebastian Riviere -- 15k
Michael Martin -- back down to 4k
Marcel Luske -- about 5k - I saw him min-raise from early position, and fold extremely unhappily when the small blind, an Asian gent with a little jade Buddha sitting on his cards, reraised.

[NoflopsHomer]

Marcel Luske is OUT. UTG limped for 300, as did the Cut-Off, the button then made a rather large 3,600. Marcel pushed from the big blind for a total of 4,925, put on his iPod and began singing. As you do. The limpers got out of the way and the button called with his , up against Marcel's Jacks.

Board:



There is precisely one less singing Dutchman in the Casino now, making a grand total of 0 singing Dutchmen.

Also out are Martin Wendt (who Wendt and gone ), Jonas Molander, Juha Helppi and Travis Bickle/Ramzi Jelassi. The final words of the last of these were allegedly, "Are those chips coming to me? Are those chips coming to ME? Well I don't see anyone else in the pot, are those chips coming to me?......Oh you have the best hand, I guess not."

[NoflopsHomer]

Surinder Sunar has just used one of these cards.



He pushed all-in over the top of a 1k button raise for around 4k total, his opponent dwelled and Surinder called the clock before his opponent made the call for half his stack with . A good call considering Surinder was only able to show .

Board:





Surinder still on around 4.5k, here pictured sitting between Morten Erlandsen (aka Pokergirl) and Cristiano Blanco (EPT Dortmund runner-up).



Meanwhile, in the category "EPT Champions who are close to the Chip Lead", you could fit EPT Barcelona winner, Sander Lyloff who has around 45k.

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Mr Gambler Jacket Man avoided some kind of disaster maybe with his against pocket Queens when both players rivered their straight on a board, with a whole pile of betting all the way down. He now seems to be quite a big stack. Staying on Table Gamblor, Mr Thomas Wahlroos also seems to be a big stack, on around 40k.

Other rough chip counts (the smaller the stack, the greater the accuracy) include

Patrik Antonius -- 35k+
Barry Greenstein -- 40k
Sebastian Riviere -- 35k
Aurangzeb Sheikh -- 4k
Dave Colclough -- 16k, ipod firmly ON
Matt Tyler -- 11k and making faces. He is now sharing a table with Patrik Antonius, but has promised to buy me a drink when play finishes for the day, so a completely unbiased Yay Matt! Ahem.

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Contrary to what was previously reported, there remains exactly one singing Dutchman in the building. Marcel Luske is enjoying the massive cash game action that has taken over the greater part of the Festsaal since they started breaking tables. Also spotted trying to make their buy-in back are Jeff Lisandro, Jan Sointula, my friend Rosie Man, and about 200 others.

[danafish]

Couldn't see Attractive American Michael Martin on my rounds, so let's assume for the moment that he's OUT.

[NoflopsHomer]

Random assortment of chip counts taken about 10 minutes before the end.

Aurangzeb Sheikh -- 4.6k
Bill Edler -- 17.3k
John Shipley -- 17.4k
Luca Pagano -- 25.7k
Sander Lyloff -- 54k
Phillip Yeh -- 17.1k
Surinder Sunar -- 6.5k
Noah Boeken -- 3.4k
Nicolas Levi -- OUT (Kings into Aces then his last 225 with against )
Dean Plumely -- 8.2k
Dario Minieri -- 9.5k
Patrik Antonius -- 27k
Matt Tyler -- 9k

Full chip counts et al to come later when we get them and the lengthy bag and tag process is complete.

Dana has a few more photos to go up. 

Remember play restarts tomorrow at 2pm or 1pm GMT.

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Sitting next to Possibly Ms Skoennemark is Mark Vos, who must have escaped Theo Jorgensen as he's up to 35k - he was on 4k last time I saw him.

Click to see full-size image.

Also here is a nice shot of Table Antonius-Tyler



And one of Katja Thater for no reason other than that she's still in.

[danafish]

Oh, that means we're done! Yay! Apparently we're playing down to 40 tomorrow, from 2pm (1pm your time, UK people).

I get to stick forks in things now. Like I haven't been doing that all day. Mmm.

 

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts:

Sander   Lylloff   66150
Gyoergy   Moger   46775
Manfred   Hammer   43825
Thierry   Van Den Berg   42100
Markus   Lehmann   40100
Raul   Mestre Lleida   39700
Michael   Durrer   39700
Victor   Escudero Mellado   39325
Christophe   Defforey   39300
Thomas   Wahlroos   38150
Sebastian   Riviere   35575
Mark   Vos   32875
Mark Secher   Petersen   32675
Voitto Aulis   Rintala   32625
Daniele   Cuomo   32050
Andreas   Fluri   31275
Luis David   Sevilla Petit   31075
Tobias   Reinkemeier   30750
Dan Bitsch   Pedersen   30650
Barry   Greenstein   30325
Patrik   Antonius   29925
Sigi   Stockinger   29675
Christian   Aris   28900
Florian   Langmann   28400
Dennis Naci   Hansen   27925
Andre   Akkari   27925
Roman   Yitzhaki   27900
Hevad   Khan   27825
Simon   Munoz   27350
Pascal   Perrault   27250
Balazs Gergely   Biri   27000
Julian   Thew   26525
Denes Tamas   Kalo   26475
Bonyadi   Farzad   26250
Robert   Binelli   26200
Magnus   Mamsen   25500
Sebastian   Ruthenberg   25300
Christophe   Benzimra   25075
Mads   Andersen   24650
Edward   Lawson   24625
Adam   Levy   24525
Harald   Poeschl   24500
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen   24050
Luca   Pagano   23725
Acar   Mazlum   23225
Johan   Van Til   23150
Joep   Durkstra   23075
Johnny Groenne   Jensen   23025
Andreas   Hoivold   22650
Ram   Vaswani   22175
Jan Olav   Sjaavik   22075
Armin   Stocker   22025
Klaus   Haunschmidt   21975
Johann   Fest   21875
Thang   Nguyen   21200
Martin   Rask   21025
Mikael   Johansson   20700
Mats Erik   Iremark   20700
Baroukh   Fowzi   19975
Paul   Testud   19925
David   Sonelin   19675
Rino   Mathis   19325
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh   18950
Hector   Fuentes   18700
Theo   Jorgensen   18525
Vlado   Sevo   18300
Richard   Ashby   17825
David   Daneshgar   17625
Matthias   Neu   17575
Katja   Thater   17525
John   Shipley   17350
Joshua James   Gould   17350
Andreas   Rathje   17250
Thor   Hansen   16800
Thomas   Fuller   16575
Eldos   Davlet   16500
Martin   Vallo   16300
Kalil   Rahal   16250
Alexander   Kravchenko   16175
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey   16075
Victor   Goossens   15925
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson   15625
Johan   Storakers   15150
Alan Peter   Smurfit   15025
Werner   Lorenzoni   14700
Giuseppe   Festa   14625
Vladimir   Poleshchuk   14575
Dave   Colclough   14550
Pier Paolo   Ruscalla   14475
Bill   Edler   14400
Adrian   Koy   14050
Roy   Von Der Locht   13850
Jeffrey   Glaser   13750
Anton   Allemann   13700
Krzysztof   Czerwinski   13675
Andreas   Krause   13575
Daniel   Mangas   13550
Magnus   Persson   13425
Marcus   Naalden   12600
Barny   Boatman   12575
Herbert   Otto   12300
Morten   Erlandsen   12125
Josef   Kollarits   11900
Raoul Gilmar   Refos   11825
Christian   Hohendorf   11625
Mark   Bartlog   11575
Thanh   Pham   11575
Dario   Minieri   11450
Rein Roelof   Zijda   10750
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic   10475
Mika   Paasonen   10425
Gabor   Kovacs   10425
Matthew   Tyler   10125
Peter   Gould   10075
Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman   9200
Justin Charles   Smith   9200
Pavel   Blatny   9050
Jeppe   Mikkelsen   9025
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark   9025
Ilhan   Eyikat   8975
Daniel   Tarnopol   8975
Istvan Zsolt   Novak   8950
Katja   Svendsen   8775
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki   8750
Age   Spets   8700
Martin   Jaeger   8675
Dean   Plumley   8650
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar   8575
Michael   Csango   8525
Heimo   Krainer   8450
Matteo   Taddia   8250
Ugur   Coskun   8025
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers   7875
Paul   Christoffersson   7750
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch   7325
Mika   Puro   7125
Carlo   Di Renzo    6850
Hugo   Franca   6675
Gunnar   Rabe   6600
Adriaan   Schaap   6575
Mark Raymond   Segal   6475
Danny   Stiegler   6475
Benjamin Charles   Johnson   6200
Jan   Bendik   5275
Sorin   Posa   4875
Uffe   Holm   4750
Jiri   Vacek   4725
Zsolt Peter   Mayer   4675
Gianni   Giaroni   4650
Noah   Boeken   4575
Aurangzeb   Sheikh   4500
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen   3925
Chris   Bush   3875
Soraya   Homam   3575
Christina   Stadel   3025
Manutscher   Parsian   2650