Pokerstars.com Baden EPT: Day 2 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has not yet started and there appears to be little activity upstairs. 156 players remain, below in seating order with chip counts. Intriguing that there is no table 13, I guess the Austrians are a superstitious lot...

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Alan Peter   Smurfit   1   1   15025
Matthias   Neu   1   2   17575
Johann   Fest   1   3   21875
Jonas Erik Svante   Oedman   1   4   9200
Dennis Naci   Hansen   1   5   27925
Vlado   Sevo   1   6   18300
Magnus   Mamsen   1   7   25500
Mark Secher   Petersen   1   8   32675

Peter   Gould   2   1   10075
Adrian   Koy   2   2   14050
Danny   Stiegler   2   3   6475
Richard   Ashby   2   4   17825
Sander   Lylloff   2   5   66150
Robert   Binelli   2   6   26200
Hugo   Franca   2   7   6675
Raul   Mestre Lleida   2   8   39700

Uffe   Holm   3   1   4750
Denes Tamas   Kalo   3   2   26475
Klaus   Haunschmidt   3   3   21975
Daniele   Cuomo   3   4   32050
Roy   Von Der Locht   3   5   13850
Bill   Edler   3   6   14400
Szabolcs Attila   Saskoey   3   7   16075
Johan   Van Til   3   8   23150

Magnus   Persson   4   1   13425
Paul   Testud   4   2   19925
Jiri   Vacek   4   3   4725
Joris Bernard Antoine   Jaspers   4   4   7875
Acar   Mazlum   4   5   23225
Morten   Erlandsen   4   6   12125
Patrik   Antonius   4   7   29925
Mark   Bartlog   4   8   11575

Thomas   Fuller   5   1   16575
Baroukh   Fowzi   5   2   19975
Tobias   Reinkemeier   5   3   30750
Raoul Gilmar   Refos   5   4   11825
Manfred   Hammer   5   5   43825
Dean   Plumley   5   6   8650
Thanh   Pham   5   7   11575
Johnny Groenne   Jensen   5   8   23025

Mats Erik   Iremark   6   1   20700
Edward   Lawson   6   2   24625
Barry   Greenstein   6   3   30325
Ilhan   Eyikat   6   4   8975
Andreas   Krause   6   5   13575
Harald   Poeschl   6   6   24500
Martin   Rask   6   7   21025
Gianni   Giaroni   6   8   4650

Hector   Fuentes   7   1   18700
Luca   Pagano   7   2   23725
Adam   Levy   7   3   24525
Bonyadi   Farzad   7   4   26250
Ugur   Coskun   7   5   8025
Adriaan   Schaap   7   6   6575
Pascal   Perrault   7   7   27250
Christian   Hohendorf   7   8   11625

Victor   Goossens   8   1   15925
Matteo   Taddia   8   2   8250
Sebastian   Riviere   8   3   35575
Christophe   Defforey   8   4   39300
Gyoergy   Moger   8   5   46775
Jeffrey   Glaser   8   6   13750
Gunnar   Rabe   8   7   6600
Paul   Christoffersson   8   8   7750

Markus   Lehmann   9   1   40100
Michael   Durrer   9   2   39700
Surinder Pal Singh   Sunar   9   3   8575
Martin   Jaeger   9   4   8675
Benjamin Charles   Johnson   9   5   6200
Mika   Paasonen   9   6   10425
David   Daneshgar   9   7   17625
Sigi   Stockinger   9   8   29675

Vladimir   Poleshchuk   10   1   14575
Andreas   Fluri   10   2   31275
Andreas   Rathje   10   3   17250
Julian   Thew   10   4   26525
Werner   Lorenzoni   10   5   14700
Sorin   Posa   10   6   4875
Luis David   Sevilla Petit   10   7   31075

Pier Paolo   Ruscalla   11   1   14475
Sebastian   Ruthenberg   11   2   25300
Josef   Kollarits   11   3   11900
Daniel   Tarnopol   11   4   8975
Dave   Colclough   11   5   14550
Mads   Andersen   11   6   24650
Dalibor Oliver   Zjacic   11   7   10475
Florian   Langmann   11   8   28400

Alexander   Kravchenko   12   1   16175
Christina   Stadel   12   2   3025
Joshua James   Gould   12   3   17350
Dario   Minieri   12   4   11450
Mika   Puro   12   5   7125
Martin   Vallo   12   6   16300
Carlo   Di Renzo    12   7   6850
Thierry   Van Den Berg   12   8   42100

Aurangzeb   Sheikh   14   1   4500
Pavel   Blatny   14   2   9050
Thang   Nguyen   14   3   21200
Voitto Aulis   Rintala   14   4   32625
Gabor   Kovacs   14   5   10425
Thor   Hansen   14   6   16800
Joep   Durkstra   14   7   23075
Zsolt Peter   Mayer   14   8   4675

Michael   Csango   15   1   8525
Istvan Zsolt   Novak   15   2   8950
Justin Charles   Smith   15   3   9200
Victor   Escudero Mellado   15   4   39325
Theo   Jorgensen   15   5   18525
John   Shipley   15   6   17350
Marcin Krzysztof   Horecki   15   7   8750
Katja   Svendsen   15   8   8775

Herbert   Otto   16   1   12300
Noah   Boeken   16   2   4575
David   Sonelin   16   3   19675
Yakov Zvi   Hirsch   16   4   7325
Thomas   Wahlroos   16   5   38150
Chris   Bush   16   6   3875
Armin   Stocker   16   7   22025
Anton   Allemann   16   8   13700

Manutscher   Parsian   17   1   2650
Barny   Boatman   17   2   12575
Mark   Vos   17   4   32875
Andreas   Hoivold   17   5   22650
Matthew   Tyler   17   7   10125
Philip Chen Yun   Yeh   17   8   18950

Balazs Gergely   Biri   18   1   27000
Jan   Bendik   18   2   5275
Andre   Akkari   18   3   27925
Eldos   Davlet   18   4   16500
Jeppe   Mikkelsen   18   5   9025
Soraya   Homam   18   6   3575
Mark Raymond   Segal   18   7   6475
Rino   Mathis   18   8   19325

Christophe   Benzimra   19   1   25075
Daniel   Mangas   19   2   13550
Kalil   Rahal   19   3   16250
Hans Vimmo   Eskilsson   19   4   15625
Eva Marianne Ulrika   Skoennemark   19   5   9025
Giuseppe   Festa   19   6   14625
Mikkel Aakjar   Lassen   19   7   3925
Simon   Munoz   19   8   27350

Dan Bitsch   Pedersen   20   1   30650
Age   Spets   20   2   8700
Katja   Thater   20   3   17525
Rein Roelof   Zijda   20   4   10750
Janne Wilhelm   Juutilainen   20   5   24050
Roman   Yitzhaki   20   6   27900
Christian   Aris   20   7   28900
Jan Olav   Sjaavik   20   8   22075

Krzysztof   Czerwinski   21   2   13675
Mikael   Johansson   21   3   20700
Johan   Storakers   21   4   15150
Marcus   Naalden   21   5   12600
Heimo   Krainer   21   6   8450
Hevad   Khan   21   7   27825
Ram   Vaswani   21   8   22175

[danafish]

No no, play has now indeed started, and it has been totally action-filled so far. Only slightly suffering from a couple of brandies last night with Mr Matt "My Head Is Not Spherical" Tyler, and my breakfast curry this morning, I wandered upstairs, just in time to witness the below gent, whom I believe to be Johann Fest, double up with a set of Kings. "Jambalaya!!" he cried as he scooped up his new, larger stack.

[NoflopsHomer]

Barny Boatman is OUT. "I had trip nines with one card to come against Queens."

Also gone is Noah Boeken.

Carlo Di Renzo has crippled Josh Gould, vs on a board.

Thewy has knocked out Sorin Posa, but raising with A-2 and calling the 4k more re-raise all-in only to find himself ahead of Q-J and spiking the Ace for good measure, he's wary of Luis David Sevilla Petit, who is apparently getting very busy on the table.

[danafish]

Meanwhile Richard Ashby was doubling up off of Sander Lyloff, all in preflop with his  against Sander's . "It's too early in the morning for this," sighed Ashby. "It's an exciting start to the day," replied Lyloff. And indeed it was...

Flop - gave Lyloff the flush draw

Turn - also giving Lyloff the straight draw. "Wow," deadpanned the now drawtastic Austrian.

River -

And with a sigh of relief, Richard Ashby escaped all the draws to double up to just over 30k.

[danafish]

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

[danafish]

Another early double-up was this gent, whom I believe is Michael Csango. His  was good against on a board. He was not actually asleep at the time.

[danafish]

I understand that Julian Thew knocked out a short stack. Also I understand that Patrik Antonius a few tables away suffered quite a big hit.

[NoflopsHomer]

Peter Gould who was 12th here last year, just knocked out Adrian Koy with Sevens vs Ace King on an 8-2-3-2-8 board. Meanwhile it looks as though his son, Josh, is out after that early trips vs trips encounter.

Andreas 'Woodstock' Hoivold, who suffered a slow first day where he lost a lot of chips has steadily been regaining ground. He just bet 10k out on the river of a board to take a 25k pot.



Bill Edler and Phillip 'Clap Your Hands Say' Yeh. (I can't believe that nickname hasn't caught on yet...)



Hevad 'Rain' Khan (WSOP finalist and '22 stt's at once' player) and Ram Vaswani. I'm awaiting a 'Battering Ram' or 'Wrath of Khan' moment here.



Janne Juutilainen just came over the top of Dan Pedersen's 6k bet on a board for around roughly the same amount. Pedersen dwelled for ages, but was forced to call with his 9's, miles behind the American Airlines of Janne which stayed good and gave him a 30k pot. Here's a picture of the pot-winner, looking as though he's aiming to be the first man with no neck or chin to win an EPT.

[danafish]

Julian Thew's looking a bit like the cat that swallowed the canary.  lol  Wondering if maybe he just luckboxed and dished out a bad beat to someone? 

Yes, it does seem a bit like an expression of, again, mild constipation. He's now the clear chip leader on table 10, munching continuously on the more-or-less-microstack canaries that surround him. Some of those chips came from a young and identified now-a-microstack-owing-to-this-hand gent, who dared to bet 10.6k into a 15k+ pot on a board, only to fold when Julian impassively moved all in. He kept that same expression on his face the whole time. Mmm. Canary. Hope he's brought Rennies.

[danafish]

Chris Bush is short again, on about 6.5k. Also looking a bit vertically challenged is the stack of Matt Tyler - he told me to say he was on 70k, but he's actually on around 7k. Not quite desperate yet, but perhaps a little worried. He filled me in on Barny Boatman's exit though. Apparently Barny called a raise with 7-9 on the button, and the flop came Q-9-x. the turn came another 9, and there was a bet. Barny pushed with his trips and his opponent called with K-Q. River another Queen. Ouch.

[danafish]

Dave Colclough is on about 22k.

Players are now on a 10 minute break. When they go back the blinds will be 400/800/100 ante. 102 players now remain, average chips 27,647.

As they went to break, a very brief burst of "The Entertainer" exploded over the PA, in a totally slapstick fashion. Bizarre.

[danafish]

Just before the break, I saw Daniel Mangas move in for 10,775 on top of Philip Yeh's button raise to 1700. Yeh eventually folded. He looked a bit sheepish. Mangas looked incredibly relieved.

[NoflopsHomer]

The craziest story of today is the complete implosion of Sander Lyloff, we're in the end of level 8 (300/600/75) and he has gone from 66k and chip leader to OUT.



After doubling up Richard Ashby twice, giving some chips to Raul Mestre Lleida, he then sent another 8k to Peter Gould
whose was good on a 2-J-Q-9-7 board vs the Austrian's A-T.

His last 275 went in with T-8 vs 7-4 and there was only ever going to be one winner there.

And from the biggest faller, we go to probably one of the biggest climbers. Surinder Sunar started today with around 8.5k, not the shortest but certainly not healthy, now he's on around 40k, roughly the same as John Shipley.

The new chip leader was thought to be Acar Mazlum, who had built up his stack to 75k, mostly at the cost of the Finns on his table, Antonius and Wahlroos. However he just gave Antonius back some chips, putting the pin-up boy all-in with x against Antonius' on a board, spiking the flush on the turn with the , only to have Antonius hit the river to fill up.

Mazlum then doubled up Paul Testud, Kings vs Ace Queen, and the Frenchman hit both his hole cards.

Matt Tyler received a bit of luck, a player in seat 5 raised, and was called by the button, Matt pushed with Tens and the original raiser pushed too, forcing the button to release Jacks. The OR showed A-7(!)

Barry Greenstein is OUT. At least he can go home and and record more videos of his house now.

[danafish]

Also last year's third place finisher Dario Minieri made his exit shortly before the break, pocket Fours against pocket Queens. A handshake and no hard feelings. What a gent. I like his scarf too.

[NoflopsHomer]

Mark Vos is OUT, he lost most of his stack holding Jacks and Fives with vs Pascal Perrault's on a board and departed shortly afterwards. I believe he 'blamed it on the boogie'. And he certainly wasn't playing 'ABC' poker and left thinking 'I want you back' about his poker chips.



Ok, I'll stop now.

Luca Pagano, who is also a bustee, summed it up perhaps more easily when he saw the board...

"Ouch."