Pokerstars.com Dublin EPT: Day 1B - At A Glance

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Play will start back here at 2pm and today will see the likes of:

Julian Thew
Ram Vaswani
Annette Obrestad
Age Spets
Surinder Sunar
Jeff Kimber
Joe Grech
Alan Smurfit
Roland DeWolfe
Steve Billarikis
Praz Bansi
Karl Mahrenholz
William Thorsson

To name but a few.

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Here are the remaining 48 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

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********* SEAT DRAW ***********

1   1   Dalimore    Mark   UK
1   2   Cunha    Lionel   Portugal
1   3   Fitzgerald    Alexander   USA
1   4   Durrer    Michael   Germany
1   5   Rutter    Stuart    England
1   6   Martin    Michael   USA
1   7   Levi    Nicolas   France
1   8   Lindfors    Tommi   Finland
1   9   Mckeever    George   UK
2   1   Gabriele    Carlo   UK
2   2   Kimber    Jeff   UK
2   3   Tabatabai    John   UK
2   4   O'Connell    Bryan   Ireland
2   5   Butters    Jonothon   UK
2   6   Spijkers    Gijsbertus   Holland
2   7   Braver    Ryan   South Africa
2   8   Gould    Josh   UK
2   9   Lemos    Antonio   Portugal
3   1   Mallu    Ali   UK
3   2         
3   3   Svensson    Lars-Ola   Sweden
3   4   Marchese    Thomas   USA
3   5   Lecky    Paul   Ireland
3   6   DeWolfe    Roland   England
3   7   Bointon    Mark   UK
3   8   Smurfit    Alan   Ireland
3   9   Lleida    Raul Mestre   Spain
4   1   Paasonen    Mika   Finland
4   2         
4   3   Kalopuro    Sami   Finland
4   4   Quin    Aidan   Canada
4   5   Perrot    Jean-Claude   France
4   6   Runarsson    Runar   Iceland
4   7   Limongi    Michele   Italy
4   8   Thew    Julian   UK
4   9   Hagan    Andreas   Norway
5   1   Wernick    Mickey   England
5   2   Wahlroos    Thomas   Finland
5   3   Riviere    Sebastian   Sweden
5   4   Kristoffersen    Steffan   Norway
5   5   Glavin    Robert   Ireland
5   6   Lacay    Ludovic   France
5   7   Eidsvig    Tronde   Norway
5   8   Zadelnoff    Van   Norway
5   9   Geoghan    Sylvester   Ireland
6   1   Francis    Justin   USA
6   2   Grech    Joe   UK
6   3   Brindley    Roy   Ireland
6   4   Cascarino    Tony   Ireland
6   5   Lovelady    Joey   UK
6   6   Flood    Liam   Ireland
6   7   Bruel    Patrick   France
6   8   Smyth    Martin   N. Ireland
6   9   Bentham    Thomas   UK
7   1   Donaldson    Sean   Ireland
7   2   Brummelhuis    Michiel   Netherlands
7   3   Holovko    Alexander   Ukraine
7   4   Willis    Michael   IIreland
7   5   Yitzhaki    Roman   USA
7   6   Krause    Andreas    Germany
7   7   Hoivold    Andreas   Norway
7   8   Mattern    Arnaud   France
7   9   Bush    Chris   Canada
8   1   Hussain    Arshad   UK
8   2   Cook    Terry   UK
8   3   Ygborn    Carl   
8   4   Roux    Anthony   France
8   5   Magill    John   N. Ireland
8   6   Smith    Chris   UK
8   7   dos Santos    André Filipe Veiga Araújo   Portugese
8   8   Thörn    Raymi Sanchez   Sweden
8   9   Khalaf    Bisher   USA
9   1   O'Connor    Patrick   Ireland
9   2   O'Hehir    Paul   Ireland
9   3   Marco    Diego Pérez   Spain
9   4   Ismay    Wesley   USA
9   5   Veit    Jan   Germany
9   6   Bansi    Praz   England
9   7   Nguyen    Vinh   Vietnam
9   8   McGrath    Barry   Ireland
10   1         
10   2   Pagano    Luca   Italy
10   3   Smith    Daniel   England
10   4   Kretschmer    Thomas   UK
10   5   Pettersson    Anders   Sweden
10   6   McHugh    Danny   Ireland
10   7   Grundy    Ben    England
10   8   Tarnopol    Daniel   USA
11   1   Peterlongo    Mariano   Italy
11   2   Durkstra    Joep   Holland
11   3   Wetstein    Bart   Holland
11   4   Munoz    Simon    Spain
11   5   Molander    Jonas   Sweden
11   6   Kaady    Ziad   USA
11   7   Lellouche    Antony   France
11   8   Mcgilligan    Seamus   Ireland
12   1   Kleynen    Antoon   TBC
12   2   Vogt    Karsten   Germany
12   3   Spets    Age   Norway
12   4   Mellado    Victor Escudero   Spain
12   5   de la Gorce    Guillaume    France
12   6   Williams    Derek   Ireland
12   7   Green    Martin   UK
12   8   Obrestad    Annette    Norway
13   1   Hansen    Thor    Norway
13   2   Portal    Alexia   France
13   3   Petit    Luis David Sevilla   Spain
13   4   Sjölin    Lars   Sweden
13   5   O'Connell    Kevin   British
13   6   Roland    Mark   USA
13   7   de Sousa    Ricardo Oscar Braga Pinto   Portugese
13   8   Gourlay    Paul   UK
14   1   Langmann    Florian   Germany
14   2   Jelassi    Ramzi   Sweden
14   3   Laurent    Michot   France
14   4   Helppi    Juha   Finland
14   5   Vaswami    Ram   UK
14   6   Flanagan    John   Ireland
14   7   Cox    Ian   UK
14   8   Trueick    Alan   N.Ireland
15   1   Garcia    Hector Fuentes   Spain
15   2   Hoang    Chuc   France
15   3   Smith    Albert   USA
15   4   Vinson    Alan   UK
15   5   Gould    Peter   UK
15   6   Thorson    William    Sweden
15   7   Mahrenholz    Karl   UK
15   8   Mccloskey    Paddy   Ireland
16   1   Thater    Katja   Germany
16   2   Collado    Jose Luis Picazo   Spain
16   3   Sunar    Surinder   UK
16   4   Cryan    Paul   Ireland
16   5   Fougeron    Thomas   France
16   6   Taeper    Christian   German
16   7   Ashby    Richard   UK
16   8   Hardy    Philip   Ireland

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We're still on Level 1, but on the very first round we were treated to an all-in, and what an unusual one it was too, Mariano Peterlongo pushing all-in over the top of Seamus' McGilligan's paltry in comparison 550 bet on what was a seemingly innocent Jack high Flop. A suited and booted McGilligan looked understandably bemused, but he did take a few moments to mull it over, so must have had a decent piece of the board. However, he did inevitably make the fold, and was left to scratch his head in confusion as the Italian in Seat 1 snapped up the pot with his uber, and perhaps paranoid aggression.

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Nobody will be kicking my Scrabble winning ass anytime soon, although rumour has it that Ram Vaswani will have plenty of time to practice this week as he's just bitten Irish EPT dust. News spreads quicker than Summerbay in this pressroom, but according to that 90% reliable grapevine, Ram was all-in on the Turn with a mere gutshot, which ultimately missed.

I guess he truly he is one of those guys who like to gamble early doors in order to accrue a chip-leading stack.

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Nobody will be kicking my Scrabble winning ass anytime soon, although rumour has it that Ram Vaswani will have plenty of time to practice this week as he's just bitten Irish EPT dust. News spreads quicker than Summerbay in this pressroom, but according to that 90% reliable grapevine, Ram was all-in on the Turn with a mere gutshot, which ultimately missed.

I guess he truly he is one of those guys who like to gamble early doors in order to accrue a chip-leading stack.

Yes its indeed true.  Think most people missed the action live but I managed to ask Ian Cox who was Ram's table mate how the action went.  Most people on the table didn't seem to know and were all shell shocked at the quickness of events.  The flop in question was:

 

Ram called a 2k bet on the flop holding    The turn brought

   where the action was checked to Ram who then pushed the lot in.  Mateyboy called with  and Ram's ultra aggresive push was not rewarded by the river.


Final figure for today is actually 132 players by the way!

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Brace yourself for a truly bizarre hand, folks, and one which even triggered table observer Roland de Wolfe into saying, "I've never seen a hand like that before."

It all started so innocently, everyone limping around to Ali Mallu in the small blind. Ali bet 225 with Aces, as you might expect, only for everyone to fold. Either expressing his frustration of not reaching the Flop or simply wanting to show the table that he had the goods, Ali revealed his hand, but was then informed by the dealer that Raul Mestre Lleida, seated the other side of the dealer, had called from the button in Seat 9.

A stunned silence ensued, until the dealer broke the eerie quiet by exclaimed "Ruling!". As always, Thomas Kremser strode over like the King of England ready to utilise his experience in the field of tournament directing. "Tell me exactly what happened," he demands. After the dealer had retold the tale, Thomas adds in a monotone, but highly authoritative voice, "Okay, the hand is live and play will continue."

On that note, the dealer dealt out a Flop. "Can I bet?" asks Mallu. After receiving the approving nod from Big TK, Ali bet out 200, but ran into an inevitable re-raise from the Spaniard Lledia who made it 2k to play, a bet of which prised an unreluctant giggle from Roland and a couple of others on the table, the Wolfman even commenting, "I'm putting him (Ali) on Aces."

However, those giggles soon turned into gasps as Ali rose from his chair dominantly and shoved all his chips across the line. Lleida called like lightening, which was probably a signal that he was ahead, and proudly turned over . Funnily enough, Ali didn't need to go to the effort of turning his cards over, the dejected look on his face telling a more extensive story than anything on the felt ever could.

However, we all know how much fun the Poker Gods can have at our expensive, and with a small crowd of poker flies gathering around the table, the dealer dealt out first a harmless , followed by a counterfeiting , a River that I was secretly hoping for if only for the sadistic entertainment value rather than any subjective bias.

Basher Mallu jumped into the heavens and punched the air with delight as his Spanish foe looked on in dismay, his fly catching mouth-gaping expression fully expressing his feelings of dismay. A pumped up Mallu mumbled celebrations to himself as all onlookers glanced back down at the felt in amazement.

So, a double up for the Brit, but what do you think of the hand? And what about the ruling, was that the correct decision?

[snoopy1239]

wow, sick hand with mallu.

i guess kremser knows the rules better than any of us, but i always thought u could call but not bet/raise if you had exposed your cards. very strange one though

just spoke to stu rutter.. on 8k after flopping second nut flush against levi's nut flush

Yes, Stuart Rutter is indeed on 8k after clashing with Levi. Luckily, he got away cheap, just flat call-in a bet on every street with K-T vs. A-9 after both flopped the goods on a Q-J-4 board.

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The players are still on a break, but I did manage to catch up with the odd couple, Praz Bansi and Karl Mahrenholz (Karl's the tidy one, if you're wondering). At the moment, Karl is also the one with the tidy stack, now up to 18k whilst Praz struggles with 11k. "They keep calling," comments the bracelet winner. "One day I'll get a hand."

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Bad news for the father son Gould combo, well for the Dad actually.  Josh is still on his starting stack but Peter Gould is out, Josh told me the news and said his dad just mumbled at him and didn't actually comprehend how he went out.   Josh was happy enough with his progress thoough but stated that "2 out of 4 of us OUT already ain't good!"  I am asuming he means Ram here.

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Reigning champion Roland De Wolfe is OUT with top two pair against a straight flush draw which straight flushed on the Turn.

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Cheeky Geordie and moonlighting Rocket Man Paul Gourlay is up to pace-setting 29,000. According to the horse's mouth, he ground his way up to 19,000 before finding those Pocket Cowboys (yeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaa, ride em cowboy  ) and re-raising Kevin O'Connell's Flop raise from late position. Both Kevin and 'stuck-in-the middle' Mark Roland called, subsequently seeing a T-6-4 Flop with two hearts.

Kevin bet out 2.5k, Mark called, and Paul made it 7.5k. Both players moved out the way, leaving Paul to take a nice pot uncontested.

Watch out, folks, the Rocket Man's picking up steam and ready for launch.

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Just saw an interesting hand develop between Ben Grundy & Luca Pagana.  It started with Grundy raising to 575 under the gun and Luca reraising to 1,425 in total.  Ben called, the flop was

    Check from Ben, Luca bet 1,125.  Ben reraised another 1,875, 3k total.

All these actions from both players were delibarate, thought out and slow, no bang, bang with these two.  At this point Luca reraises again, calling the extra 1,875 and making it another 5K to Ben!

Ben says  "Urrghhhh"  right from the belly and "so sick!"

Then pushes all in, after throwing in the 5K its only another 3,750 to Luca Pagano whose total stack at this point is about 6k so if he gets it wrong, it doesn't leave him with much.  He deliberates, looks uncomfotable - and PASSES to the shock of the large spectators.  Even to the shock of Ben Grundy who actually pyschically jumped in his seat and excitedly turned over the  only!  Hmmm,  Ben was left raking in a great size pot (about 23K) and Luca was left with his head down sighing.

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Thanks to Jonathan Raab for his superb system of tracking players/chips, we have chip counts for all Day1b players at the end of level 2, courtesy of Pokerstars.

Antony Lellouche France 40800
 Carlo Gabriele UK 39325
 Juha Helppi Finland 36875
 Ali Mallu UK 35950
 Vinh Nguyen Vietnam 32150
 Philip Hardy Ireland 31675
 Raymi Sanchez Thörn Sweden 31175
 Kevin O'Connell British 30875
 Ludovic Lacay France 30300
 Patrick Bruel France 28725
 Paul Gourlay UK 28550
 Florian Langmann Germany 27450
 Surinder Sunar UK 27100
 Hector Fuentes Garcia Spain 26000
 Nicolas Levi France 25700
 Thor  Hansen Norway 25350
 Jonothon Butters UK 23850
 Barry McGrath Ireland 22975
 Andreas Hagan Norway 21700
 Justin Francis USA 21275
 Anders Pettersson Sweden 21075
 Jean-Claude Perrot France 21000
 Guillaume  de la Gorce France 20400
 Roman Yitzhaki USA 19700
 Ziad Kaady USA 19625
 Jose Luis Picazo Collado Spain 19225
 Gijsbertus Spijkers Holland 18325
 Karl Mahrenholz UK 18075
 Karsten Vogt Germany 17875
 Annette  Obrestad Norway 17700
 Derek Williams Ireland 17625
 André Filipe Veiga Araújo dos Santos Portugal 17550
 Albert Smith USA 17475
 Alan Trueick N.Ireland 17150
 Mark Roland USA 17125
 Chris Smith UK 16875
 Runar Runarsson Iceland 16750
 Michiel Brummelhuis Netherlands 16700
 Luca Pagano Italy 16575
 Carl Ygborn Sweden 16475
 Tronde Eidsvig Norway 16225
 Joe Grech UK 16225
 Alexander Holovko Ukraine 16150
Steven Zadelhoff Norway 15950
 Alexander Fitzgerald USA 15850
 Ram Vaswami UK 15750
 Michael Martin USA 15675
 Alan Smurfit Ireland 15650
 Alan Vinson UK 15450
 Joey Lovelady UK 15325
 Arshad Hussain UK 15325
 Thomas Kretschmer UK 15325
 Andreas  Krause Germany 15300
 Michael Durrer Germany 14875
 Paul O'Hehir Ireland 14850
 Tony Cascarino Ireland 14825
 Paddy Mccloskey Ireland 14825
 Chris Bush Canada 14800
 Mark Bointon UK 14750
 Bart Wetstein Holland 14725
 Tommi Lindfors Finland 14575
 Andreas Hoivold Norway 14100
 Danny McHugh Ireland 14100
 Mark Dalimore UK 14075
 Simon  Munoz Spain 14075
 Chuc Hoang France 14050
 Lars Sjölin Sweden 14000
 Martin Green UK 13875
 Josh Gould UK 13775
 Antoon Kleynen TBC 13750
 Ramzi Jelassi Sweden 13750
 Ben  Grundy England 13425
 Lars-Ola Svensson Sweden 13375
 Roy Brindley Ireland 13175
 Mika Paasonen Finland 13075
 Patrick O'Connor Ireland 13025
 Katja Thater Germany 12950
 Martin Smyth N. Ireland 12900
 Sebastian Riviere Sweden 12725
 Mickey Wernick England 12550
 George McKeever UK 12425
 Diego Pérez Marco Spain 12225
 Richard Ashby UK 12225
 Victor Escudero Mellado Spain 12150
 Julian Thew UK 12025
 Robert Glavin Ireland 11975
 Thomas Wahlroos Finland 11950
 Arnaud Mattern France 11800
 Steffan Kristoffersen Norway 11700
 Praz Bansi England 11700
 Bryan O'Connell Ireland 11600
 Sylvester Geoghan Ireland 11600
 Anthony Roux France 11600
 Alexia Portal France 11600
 Ian Cox UK 11425
 Sean Donaldson Ireland 10900
 Joep Durkstra Holland 10900
 Antonio Lemos Portugal 10875
 Seamus Mcgilligan Ireland 10800
 Lionel Cunha Portugal 10625
 Daniel Tarnopol USA 10575
 Jonas Molander Sweden 10425
 Ricardo Oscar Braga Pinto de Sousa Portugal 10100
 Raul Mestre Lleida Spain 9800
 Terry Cook UK 9650
 Jan Veit Germany 9425
 John Magill N. Ireland 9200
 Ryan Braver South Africa 8950
 Thomas Marchese USA 8750
 Paul Lecky Ireland 8750
 Stuart  Rutter England 8100
 Thomas Bentham UK 7925
 John Flanagan Ireland 7375
 Age Spets Norway 6600
 Daniel Smith England 6525
 Christian Taeper German 6450
 Michot Laurent France 6050
 Wesley Ismay USA 5450
 Bisher Khalaf USA 5150
 Liam Flood Ireland 4625
 Jeff Kimber UK 4350
 William  Thorson Sweden 4300
 John Tabatabai UK 2850
 Roland DeWolfe England OUT
 Sami Kalopuro Finland OUT
 Aidan Quin Canada OUT
 Michele Limongi Italy OUT
 Mariano Peterlongo Italy OUT
 Luis David Sevilla Petit Spain OUT
 Peter Gould UK OUT
 Paul Cryan Ireland OUT
 Thomas Fougeron France OUT
Ram Vaswami  OUT

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Ash Hussain is on 30k (I counted 28 or 29k, but he said 30k sounded better). It took two hand really, the first seeing him bet out 525 with the mighy on a Flop and calling a re-raise to 1,600. Both players checked the Flop, and then Ash pumped out 2.5k on the River to force his opponent to fold. And oh yes, that 3 high was shown. Soon after, a three was busy again, this time actually giving Ash a hand when he flopped a set of threes, action on every street providing him with the stack he currently enjoys.

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I'm afraid I don't know what happened to Stuart Rutter but he has gone in the last 10 minutes!

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Not great news for the 2 Hitsquaders here, Praz lost a hefty pot holding JT suited on a J 9 8 board but the  and the club river gave four clubs on board and the flush with Aces for mateyboy.  Praz currently on 4,400.

Karl Mahrenholz was fairing a little better but just got involved in a pot with Alan Vinson and another mateboy no less.  I arrived after the river  on this board

 

Alan Vinson bet out 2,500 and Karl reraised to 7,000.  Mateyboy just made the call and Alan passed, leaving Karl a little annoyed at being shown Q9 for two pair, although Karl was indicating that whatever mateyboy had must have been good!  Busted flush perhaps? Karl now on 7,000.

Alan Vinson now on 16,000

[snoopy1239]

A few chippy counts that you might be interested in:

Marty Smyth -- 6,800
Jeff Kimber -- 2,740
John Tabatabai -- 4,375
Ali Mallu -- 47,500
Mickey Wernick -- 14,475
Slyvester Geoghegan -- 13,100
Joey Lovelady -- 9,475
Joe Grech -- 3,050
Surinder Sunar -- 28,500
Julian Thew -- 15,000
Danny McHugh -- 12,000
Richard Ashby -- 10,025
Ramzi Jelassi -- 12,500
Kevin O'Connell -- 19,275
Age Spets -- 4,600
Martin Green -- 11,600
Ash Hussain -- 30,000
Chris Smith -- 13,000
Paul Lecky -- 14,200
Karl Mahrenholz -- 8,250
Ian Cox -- 9,800
Paul Gourlay -- 21,000
Praz Bansi -- 3,150
Ben Grundy -- 15,500
Thomas Kretschmer -- 22,300

Julian Thew doubled up off Antony Lellouch with Queens versus A-K. Paul Gourlay dropped to 21k after paying off Thor Hansen's Aces on a Ten high board.

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Praz Bansi is now OUT, and wondering if he will ever get that vital luck or just the avoidance of bad luck would be sufficient.  After beeing knocked down low he picked up pockets tens and must have been happy to be up agasint 66.  That was until his oppo made a straight with his 6 and Praz could have done with not hitting trip tens on this occassion.

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William Thorrson is OUT