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

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Ian Woodley is left scratching his head in disbelief as Noah Boeken sucked out on him again (he did it yesterday too says Ian).  Mateyboy raises and Noah reraises on the button with  to about 12k.  Ian is sitting pretty in the big blind with  and moves all in for another 20k on top.  Mateyboy passes and it's left to Noah to make the 20k call.  He muttered and said he didn't want to pass to a AK, so he makes the call.

You kinda can guess what is next, Noah hit another 3 on the flop and Woodley is left to give us some ear bashing about the cruelty of this game we all love.

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Ash Hussain is struggling at the moment with 21k, his last hand being a fold to a button re-raise (3,200 to 10,000) from Kristian Kjondal.

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We currently have 10 mins left of Level 11

600 / 1,200
55 players
av 60,300

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Bad Beater Chris Smith is OUT.  His Kings came up against the mightly chip stack of Casper Hansen and his less mightier 6's.  Sadly for Chris, Casper hit a six and Chris is shrugging his shoulders.

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Players: 55
Blinds: 600/1,200
Average Stack: 60,300

I may have missed a player or two, but from what I saw on my travels, these are the current chip leaders:

(1) Casper Hansen -- 205,000
(2) Mike McDonald -- 169,000
(3) Ludovic Lacay -- 166,000
(4) Noah Boeken -- 143,000
(5) Andy Black -- 138,000
(6) Simon Munoz -- 134,000
(7) Guillaume de La Gorce -- 125,000
(8) Thierry Van Der Berg -- 103,000

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Here is the current full chip count taken right at the start of the dinner break.

Casper Hansen Denmark PokerStars qualifier 207900
Guillaume  de la Gorce France  200500
Mike McDonald Canada  197400
Andrew Black Ireland  160000
Ludovic Lacay France  159600
Noah Boeken Holland Team PokerStars Pro 140000
Simon  Munoz Spain  136300
Thierry Van Den Berg Holland PokerStars qualifier 135100
Kristian Kjøndal Norway  99500
Barry McGrath Ireland PokerStars qualifier 97100
Vinh Nguyen Vietnam  90200
Johnny Lodden Norway  81800
Michiel Brummelhuis Holland  76600
Tommi Lindfors Finland PokerStars qualifier 69500
Tony Cascarino Ireland  67600
Dave Colclough Wales  66600
Ziad Kaady US PokerStars qualifier 61900
Andreas Hoivold Norway  57700
Tronde Eidsvig Norway  56400
Ian Cox England  56100
Reijo Manninen Finland PokerStars qualifier 54900
Anders Pettersson Sweden PokerStars qualifier 54700
Sebastian Ruthenberg Germany PokerStars sponsored player 50700
Arshad Hussain UK  48300
Annette  Obrestad Norway  48200
Csaba Malnai Hungary  47600
Michael Durrer Germany PokerStars qualifier 46900
Mathieu Gallienne France  45900
Luca Pagano Italy Team PokerStars Pro 45000
Phidias Georgiou Cyprus PokerStars qualifier 44500
Michael Martin USA PokerStars player 41400
Martin Green UK PokerStars qualifier 41000
Reuben Peters USA PokerStars qualifier 40500
Daan Ruiter Holland  39800
Johannes Steindl Austria  38100
Oran Holt Norway  37900
Ramzi Jelassi Sweden  36900
Henric Stråth Sweden PokerStars qualifier 31600
Bart Wetstein Holland  29500
Jan Veit Germany PokerStars qualifier 29400
Marcel Baran Germany  28700
Christopher Hamman USA PokerStars qualifier 27300
Mika Paasonen Finland PokerStars qualifier 20200
Paul Gourlay UK  19500
Robert Glavin Ireland PokerStars qualifier 18900
Paul Leckey Ireland  17700
Jose Luis Picazo Collado Spain  17100
Paul Testud France  14300

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Swedish youngster Ramzi Jelassi is OUT. I didn't catch the pe-flop action, but he clashed with Mike McDonald in the big blind and checked a Flop. Mike bet out, Ramzi raised, Mike pushed all-in and Ramzi called, for what was ultimately a paltry sum.

Ramzi =

Mike =

Turn =

River =

Ramzi not a happy chappy.

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On the next table, Ash Hussain knocks Dave Colcough down to just 15k with versus all-in on a Flop of . Turn and River were blanks.

"You don't know how far behind you are," claims Ash Hussain on the Flop. "I'm happy with the pot as it is."

On the turn of the River, Ash rose from his seat and clapped his hands, "Come on!" much like he did in the 2006 Monte Carlo final when he outdrew Kristian Ulriksen. Obviously winning an EPT means a lot to the former European Rankings winner.

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Great news for Paul Gourlay as he just doubled up thru Lacay.  There was a raise of 4,600 which Lacay just called which resulted in Gourlay going all in for a further 12,700 from the small blind.  Lacay clearly didn't want to call as the original raiser passed, but he did and the result was:

Gourlay 
Lacay   

Paul's 6's were good and he now has a much healthier 40,000.


We have just started Level 12
1,000 / 2,000  200 ante
40 players left
82,000 average

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What happened to andy grimasson?

Andy went out in the most testicle crunching of ways, his Aces versus Kings, all-in pre-flop, flopping a set and then losing to runner runner flush.

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Dave Colclough -- 14,000
Johnny Lodden -- 104,000

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Andy Black has been temporarily silenced (although I assure you it will only be momentary) after doubling up Michiel Brummelhuis. When I joined the action, it was on your backs times with Michiel relieved to be ahead with Twos versus A-K. An intriguing second glance requiring 2-Q-A-4-A board later and it was all she wrote.

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Sad news that Paul Gourlay has joined turned up in the press room.  He is OUT indeed out, he raised under the gun with AJ and was called from Ludvic Lacay in the BB.  They saw a flop like this

 

Lacay checked and Paul bet 8k with 42k left.  This was met with a min raise from Lacay, who has been rather volatile on the table, going from chip leader to average regularly.  Paul then took the chance and committed the rest of his chips only to be shown the J9 of Ludvic Lacay.  Paul is OUT and Ludvic is back up to about 120,000.

CHIP COUNT ON Ash Hussain PLEASE

Since Paul Gourlay has not alot else to do, I sent him to get an update on Ash Hussain and the resulst is Ash is down to 50K.  He was just reraised from Dave Colclough and layed down his hand.

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A desparately needed double up for Martin Green just now courtesy of the KK held by Tommy Lindfors.  It was all in preflop and Martin had AJ, a flopped A gave a sigh of relief for Martin and also the heady heights 40,000

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I don't think I've ever heard Dave Colclough use the phrase, "Ship it, baby!", but his latest treble up was the exception, Ash Hussain's button raise to 6k, followed by Johnny Lodden's smooth call, led to an all-in from Dave Colclough in the big blind for an extra 8k more.

Naturally, both players called, and then subsequently checked down a board, Lodden even announcing that he was going to check the Flop blind.

With Lodden's and Ash's failing to improve, it was left to El Blondie's to scoop up a nice pot.

"Now I'm dangerous!" he cheers. "Don't ever treble me up."

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Just about to start Level 14

Blinds 1,200 / 2,400   300 ante
34 players left
97,500 average

We play another 2 levels or 24 players, which ever comes first.

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Casper Hansen -- 225,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 30,000
Kristian Kjondal -- 81,000
Thierry Van Der Berg -- 226,000
Daan Ruiter -- 102,000
Barry McGrath -- 36,000
Ash Hussain -- 69,000
Johnny Lodden -- 160,000
Reijo Manninen -- 22,000
Dave Colclough -- 40,000
Andreas Hoivold -- 77,000
Tony Cascarino -- 40,000
Luca Pagano -- 68,500
Anders Pettersson -- 104,000
Csaba Malnai -- 41,000
Tronde Eidsvig -- 75,000
Ziad Kaady -- 96,000
Michiel Brummelhuis -- 64,000
Annette Obrestad -- 153,000
Andy Black -- 336,000
Mike McDonald -- 119,000
Phidias Georgiou -- 26,000
Martin Green -- 112,000
Guilliam de la Gorce -- 62,000
Simon Munoz -- 252,000
Jan Veit -- 38,000
Reuben Peters -- 31,000
Ludovic Lacay -- 248,000
Michael Durrer -- 51,000
Tommi Lindfors -- 53,000

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Phidias Georgiou is OUT.  He found himself low and pushed with 33 but an auto call from the AK of  Michiel Brummelhuis and a K on the flop sent Phidias out in 32nd place.

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It's all gone snooker loopey out there, the victim of the snooker loopiness being Mike McDonald who has now snooker looped his way over to the rail. The snooker loopiness started with a 7k raise from Mateyboy with Nines, 21k from Mike with Jacks and then an all-in from Annette with A-Q. The Nines folded, but Mike called, only to lose to an Ace. To say he looked a tad shell-shocked would be an understatement. Little ol Annette meanwhile has more chips than a potato factory.

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Tommi Lindfors has been Tommy (ahem) gunned down by popular Spaniard Simon Munoz, the serial note-taker left to high five his Unibet countrymen in jubilant victory. The hand in question was an all-in jobby come flop time, Munoz in terrific shape with Q-J vs. J-T on an A-9-T-8 board. The 4 on the River was of no use.

27 left I think Kremser announced.

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A bit pot involving Johnny Lodden & Andreas Hoivold just happened and resulted in Hoivold going all in and called by Lodden all preflop.  Not surprising since Hoivold held AK and Lodden QQ.

No help on the board for Hoivold and he is eliminated in 29th spot.