Pokerstars.com Dublin EPT: Day 1A - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Jon Huckle has been spotted on the rail with a dejected look, his tournament life reeing through his fingers like grains of sand. He raised pre-flop with A-T and was check-raised on a Ten high Flop by a straight draw, which obviously hit to send the Huckle packing. As he left, he wore a 'what can you do?' kind of expression on his face, if you can somehow picture my vision.

[snoopy1239]

As Henning Grandstad agrees that a tag system with big stacker and often Day 1 leader, not to mention latter Day exploder, Johnny Lodden would be the perfect team, fellow pace setter Dave Colclough reveals a rather tasty 59,300 stack and understandably brags, "Not bad for a day's work".

Meanwhile, the final whistle has been blown, and the players are deep into the bagging process ready to return for Day 2, some with smiles, others with frowns, but all still present nonetheless.

[snoopy1239]

Remember when I described the Woodley rollercoaster and how it could rocket at break neck speed at any time?

Well, his final words to me as he awaited dismissal were, "I'm on 24,550, haven't played a hand."

Ha, my acute observation skills and ability to predict chip activity is clearly rather questionable. The guy's turned into a rock!

[BIG-SLICK-POKER]

Nice Work Snoop ..See ya Tm enjoyed the read ty

[Chili]

And thats it folks, it is all over for Day 1a.  Interestingly they stopped play with 7mins still left of the level, but with 50 players remaining.  We shall get a full chip count and body identification from Pokerstars at some point during the night so we shall post it as soon as we have it.  I shall say goodnight and leave you with a few pics that I just took because I like to post them current.


Kristian Kjondal of Norway



Andy Black



A bit blurry Martin Wendt

[snoopy1239]

Len Collin, who once again joins me in the pressroom, finished the day n 17,275. He didn't experience any excitement post-nervy all-in moment, which, unlike the World Series, isn't sponsored by anyone, but he did inform me that Daniel Dodet folded a pair of Nines, so I guess we have to commend the Irishman for a timely all-in.

Finally, John Conroy has made it through, as one might expect, with 11k. However, even though he claims to have received absolutely nothing apart from one Big Slick - "not even suited connectors" - he's still alive and we know from Warsaw he can make his patient, steady style pay off.

[Chili]

Later dudes, be back you with all from about 1pm tomorrow, hoping for a 2pm start for the Day1b ers.

[snoopy1239]

Lodden's another one who has headphones seemingly glued to his noggin. I wonder what he's listening to, anyone want to hazard a a guess.

The Breakfast Club soundtrack?

Is that a popular choice in the Floppy household?

We prefer neo-classical space-rock down here.

What the eck is neo-classical space rock, and what bands perform that. I'm sure Dana would like to think it involved uke or banjos.

[NEVES]

   Thx 4 the upadtes.

[snoopy1239]

Righteo, peeps, that's about it for us. Thank you for joining us, but please do grace us with your presence tomorrow, same bat time, same bat channel.

For those of you who read my initial post, I think I did well enough today for Jeff to retract his accusation of cheating and call off his Scrabble strike. I think I only left out the words TORC and WELT, but when you take a look at their dictionary definition, then I'd think you can sympathise with my struggle:

Torc = a neck ornament consisting of a band of twisted on a medal, worn esp. by the ancient Gauls and Britons.

Welt = a leather rim sewn around the edge of a shoe upper to which the soul is attached.

Answers on a postcard please as to how I include them without ruining the updates.

Before I go, and I promise this is the gospel truth and not a cheap method of squeezing in one final Scrabble word, but as we journeyed in the taxi to what is an admittedly huge venue, the taxi driver drove up to one entrance that read 'Knitting and Sewing Convention' and asked, "Is this it?" I really must consider losing the pink trainers...

 

[Chili]

Here are the remaining survivors for Day 1a.

McDonald    Mike   Canada   67250
Colclough    Dave   UK   59350
Georgiou    Phidias   Cyprus   55475
Kjøndal    Kristian   Norway   53150
Zaicik    Jacques   France   48225
Black    Andrew   Ireland   45675
Christensson    Simon   Sweden   45000
Hansen    Christoffer Egemo   Denmark   43050
Vreeswijk    Kevin   Holland   42725
Baran    Marcel   Germany   40150
Stråth    Henric   Sweden   39000
Malnai    Csaba   Hungary   37250
Lodden    Johnny   Norway   37225
Hansen    Casper   Denmark   37150
Steindl    Johannes   Austria   36500
Koy    Adrian   Germany   35850
Grimason    Andrew   Ireland   35400
Ruthenberg    Sebastian   Germany   35175
Holt    Oran   Norway   33450
Hicks Jr.    Kenneth   USA   30950
Arutjonov    Aleksandr   Estonia   30150
Boeken    Noah   Holland   27825
Ryan    Daniel   USA   27550
Hostrup    Carl   Denmark   26850
Schaefer    Brandon   USA   26725
Top-Rasmussen    Stig   Denmark   26300
Wendt    Martin   Denmark   25125
Woodley    Ian   UK   24550
Hamman    Christopher   USA   18875
Eskilsson    Hans   Sweden   18550
Asgcal    Mark   UK   18500
Testud    Paul   France   17750
Manninen    Reijo   Finland   17525
Collin    Len   Ireland   17275
Hogbom    Michael   Sweden   16100
Jonasson    Gustaf    Sweden   15200
Storakers    Johan   Sweden   15050
Van den Berg    Thierry   Netherlands   14250
Ruiter    Daan   Netherlands   14125
Augdal    Terje   Norway   13925
Conroy    John   Ireland   11525
Peters    Reuben   USA   11050
Gallienne    Mathieu   France   10750
Rask    Martin   Denmark   10175
Calabro    Davide   Italy   8125
Fredriksson    Patric   Sweden   5850
Sjavik    Jan   Norway   5450
Blackman    Seth   USA   5000

[JaffaCake]

Excellent updates Maria, see you tomorrow. Snoops, I think you've lost the plot