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

[NoflopsHomer]

Patrik Antonius is OUT.

He held K-J on a board versus of Acar   Mazlum, both checked the flop, Patrik min-raised a 6k bet to 12k on the turn before calling all-in on the river.

Here's Surinder, he's just heard the news that the casino are performing random cavity searches and he's next on the list...



Janne 'The Chinless Wonder' Juutilainen and Roman Yitzhaki.



Age Spets and Katja Thater, also on the same table as the two immediately above.

[danafish]

It's hard to say whether Tyler's found any cards. With the big blind approaching, he told me that he has not yet found his Aces. "You'll have to look harder," said I. "2-7's starting to look like Aces," said he.

Saved from the big blind by moving to another table, he's been fully abusing his position as Table Newbie though. His first hand on the new table, he raised from one off utg, and after quite a lengthy dwell from the big blind, took all those tasty antes. Then finding himself on the big blind, with a call only form the small blind, he saw a flop of . The small blind bet 1200, but Matt took that too with a raise to 3600. Seems pretty cavalier to me.

[danafish]

Sebastian Riviere has doubled up. The button raised and he moved all in for about 16k with ; the button called with a not-so-promising  . But the board came down , and he's back in the running.

[danafish]

90 left now.

[danafish]

Ram Vaswani raises to 2500 from the button, and is called by a gent in the big blind.

Flop -

The big blind checks and Ram bets a fairly un-chunky 1500. The big blind calls.

Turn - - they both check

River - - the big blind bets 5500 and Ram is forced to fold. Hmm. Ram's on about 30k.

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Our friend the Chinless Wonder (actually calling him that is much easier than actually spelling his name) calls, only for Roman Yitzhaki to raise to 4200, only for big blind Age Spets to move all in. Mr Scarf (actually that's quicker than typing Chinless Wonder) folds, and eventually so does Roman. Ah well. Rome wasn't built in a day.

That was Floppy's joke and if you have any problem with it, you must take it up with him. Sorry.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dave Colclough is OUT. Short stacked and the blinds now 500/1000/100 he pushed UTG for around 7k, Hedvad Khan pushed in behind him with , Dave was forced to show a palty .

Board:



Dave, as he was leaving, then reportedly shouted into his comm unit, "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!"




Matt Tyler is back on 13k after seeing his set of fours being 4-flushed out of a 25k pot.

[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.

[danafish]

Our friend Mr Gambler Jacket from yesterday, apparently a Poker Stars player 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.

[NoflopsHomer]

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

[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.

[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.

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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."

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John Shipley is OUT in some unfortunate circumstances. It folded around to the aforementioned Paradise Poker player in the blue shirt who reminds me a little of Popeye's nemesis Bluto in the small blind. Bluto raises. Shipley in the big blind looks him up and down, doesn't think much of him, and reraises (artistic license to be ignored here, thanks). To which Bluto responds by re-reraising all in. There is now a period of deliberation and complex counting and stacking of chips from Shipley. And then he calls.

Bluto - 

Shipley - 

Board -

A fist hits the table with some force, although actually I'm not sure whether it was Shipley's fist or Bluto's, and he's gone.