Pokerstars.com Baden EPT: Day 2 - Interactive

[danafish]

Thomas Wahlroos has somehow found himself with 5k. "I'm trying to squeeze into the money," says the Eggman. "That's a long way to squeeze," says tablemate and fellow (but not quite as) short stack Matt Tyler. The big stack at their table is I believe one Acar Mazlum who, according to Tyler, is a Lucky Swiss Fish (his words, not mine).

Anyways, Wahlroos has been doing a really astoundingly good job of staying in with his microstack - the blinds, incidentally, are 500/1000 with a 100 ante. Wahlroos resisted a steal-his-big-blind bet from the small blind. He made it back and more though, moving in for 3300 on an flop, seat 9 folding pocket Fives face up. "What a scoop!" shout Matt Tyler. "You're back in again!"

But there are serious signs that Wahlroos is no longer taking it seriously. He folds by gently blowing his cards across the felt to the dealer. Sometimes he shows his hand to his neighbours before folding, giggling. At onepoint Matt Tyler moves in preflop for his 10k plus change, and Wahlroos on the big blind laughs hysterically before turning over 3-4 offsuit.

Having said that, I stood by that table for AGES, and Wahlroos' stack somehow did not dwindle to actually nothing. He is, at the time of writing, still in. It's like some kind of minor miracle. Here he is. So good I took his picture twice.

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[danafish]

Here also is equally hysterical tablemate Matt Tyler, head looking distinctly un-spherical.

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[danafish]

Our friend Mr Gambler Jacket from yesterday, apparently a Poker Stars player (munching on his own finger in the foreground below; anyone know who he is?) makes it 3.5k, and Julian calls from the small blind.

Flop - - Julian checks, and Gamblor bets 4k. Julian calls.

Turn - - and they both check.

River - and Julian bets 5.5k. Gamblor dwells, and eventually calls, but mucks when Julian shows .

Thewy is now on about 60k. The canary-munching expression remains.

[NoflopsHomer]

Wahlroos is now out, he found Kings, but this guy (below) was holding . Morten Erlandsen came along for the ride after his hit the flop pretty hard, but the Aces scooped and 'Pokergirl1' is out too.



Age Spets, who had a big stack early yesterday but dwindled to a very small one, has now shot back up to almost 85k. He re-raised a MP raiser to around 15k with only to see he was being pushed back at, for the sum of 26k more.

"I don't like it, but I have to call...Even if you have Kings I think this call is correct."

His opponent flipped

Board:



A sigh of relief from the Labrokes player.



Peter Gould meanwhile has 43k. Here's a picture where he appears to be in a 'Thunderbirds' ppose.

[danafish]

Players are about to go on an hour's dinner break. Alas, I understand the Food Court is for people who have money, but several giant sandwich platters have appeared in the press room for us paupers. Joy! In the meantime, here is an amusing juxtaposition of chipstacking styles. Note how well the players' respectively precise and rock 'n' roll attitudes to their chips are echoed in their attire. Wonderful.

[danafish]

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[NoflopsHomer]

Ok, folks it's now a ****************** 1 Hour Dinner Break ***************************

[donrudo]

Hello all,

I have lurked here for quite a while.
You're doing a great job with the coverage of live tourneys, thanks a lot for that.

Could you tell me please if Joris Jaspers is still in, or any other dutch players?

Greets Donrudo

[TheReader23]

Also enjoying an early double up is young American Chris Bush - his was good against his opponent's on a board that read .

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Dana --

Thanks for the update on Chris Bush.  Do you know if he's still in?  By the way, he's Canadian not American.  Also, any updates on my other friends, Roman Yitzhaki and Aurangzeb Sheikh (Ozzy).  I know Ozzy started with a shortstack so he could be out. 

TheReader23

[danafish]

Hello all,

I have lurked here for quite a while.
You're doing a great job with the coverage of live tourneys, thanks a lot for that.

Could you tell me please if Joris Jaspers is still in, or any other dutch players?

Greets Donrudo

Don't suppose you have a photo of him, do you? There's a whole bunch of people still in that we don't know who they are...

[danafish]

Dana --

Thanks for the update on Chris Bush.  Do you know if he's still in?  By the way, he's Canadian not American.  Also, any updates on my other friends, Roman Yitzhaki and Aurangzeb Sheikh (Ozzy).  I know Ozzy started with a shortstack so he could be out. 

TheReader23

Last time we saw Ozzy he was really short, so we're assuming that he's gone. Oops for the mis-nationalising of Canadian Chris Bush; haven't seen him for a while either and last time we did, he only had about 6k, so for the moment let's assume he's gone too. Hope I didn't bok him calling him an American.

Roman Yitzhaki is still in though. Dinner should be over in about 15 minutes so I'll check on him when they start up again.

[donrudo]

Picture of Joris Jaspers.

picture copyright for pokernews, I guess.

Is Joris still in ?

[danafish]

I'm afraid that Joris Jaspers is out, courtesy of Howard in the press room. A Dutchman still flying the proverbial flag though is Thierry Van Der Berg, in the shades below.

[danafish]

Roman Yitzhaki is still doing just fine, on about 80k (average currently just under 50k). He's sat at a tough table though, with Ram Vaswani, Philip Yeh and big stack Daniel Mangas.

[danafish]

Peter Gould knocked out an unknown shortstack with the unlikely T-Q against the shortstack's A-T. A Queen was hit somewhere along the way. Gould apologised to the hapless now ex-shortstack. "Sorry. I'm just so hot tonight."