Pokerstars.com Bahamas EPT: Day 1A - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

"I'm on the comeback," exclaims a pumped up El Blondie. "It doesn't get much better than this."

The blonde one's on 23k, but still thinking about his big fold from earlier on. "I think she had Eights. She would have folded A-8 on the Flop."

Meanwhile, Peter Gould has jumped up to 50k after "a couple of bluffs" and finding a set of Deuces quacking their way to a 2-K-x Flop, a Jack on the River  a great card for Peter, but a poor one for his opponent who had K-J.

[NoflopsHomer]

Humberto Brenes is a crowd drawer like no other...

The board reads 6-7-8 and Humberto has called another player's all-in. The other player shows 7-7 and Humberto says, "I....haaaaaaveeee.....the...........nuts!!!" as he turns over. "No pair the board please." The board bricks out and he gets his wish.

[snoopy1239]

Directly below is Trevor McGoona, currently far from happy days with just 10,500, but he's accompanied by blonde poker Waterford Festival finalist Derek Thorpe, who, admittedly, was spotted due to his skin being paler than everyone else's. "Are you British?" I asked. "Irish." I knew he wasn't American, only Erik Seidel has skin as pale as us. "I'm playing about as bad as I've ever played before," admits Thorpe lurking over his mere 5,825.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dave Colclough has been moved to Julian Thew's right, they seemed more interested in bickering about a hand which involved Julian re-re-raising (or something) with Q-5 at the Broadway a while ago. Both in are in the 25k to 30k zone, Dan Carter meanwhile is the 'push vs a raise' stage, his 12k boosted from 9k after an Ace King shove against a raise.

Stuart Taylor is on 40k after 'sucking out big-style' with Nines against Kings, then having Kings against Ace King. Fairly easy innit.

Incidentally, todays player tally has come in as 556, with another 600 expected tomorrow.

Johnny Lodden -- 25k "Going downhill."

[NoflopsHomer]

Full list of the players who started today.

Michel Abecassis   45   6
Arthur Acer   17   8
Michael Adamo   23   9
Timothy Adams   9   1
Garrett Adelstein   33   1
Niclas Adolfsson   48   1
Tony Afani   9   3
Andre Akkari   62   6
Gino Alacqua   51   3
Paul Alterman   20   4
Santiago Ambite   27   1
Charles Anderson   49   2
Jeffrey Anderson   53   5
Fredrik Andersson   18   4
Torgny Andersson   27   6
Christopher Andler   40   3
Hoivold Andreas   4   8
Howard Appledort   8   8
Josh Arieh   29   2
Jospeh Aronesty   31   9
Bruce Atkinson   11   2
David Atrubin   13   5
Ryan Badii   61   4
David Baker   15   3
Eric Baldwin   3   1
Gerald Banach   15   2
Wilson Bassile   21   4
Chad Batista,   46   2
Mats Båtnes   35   4
Timothy Begley   36   4
Joseph Bell   62   5
Ed Bender   42   7
David Benefield   55   1
Eric Benhamron   17   4
Sergio Benso   3   3
Christophe Benzimra   24   4
Johan Bergqvist   1   2
Pierre Berube   17   1
Fabio Bianchi   8   9
Brent Bibby   6   2
Nicholas Bickey   22   9
Steve Billirakis   3   6
Jared Bleznick   40   8
Jason Block   58   7
Andrew Boccia   35   2
Blake Bohn   56   2
David Bokor   60   5
Aleksander Bolotin   17   9
Lars Bønding   11   1
Alban Borgel   25   7
Franck Bourdonné   15   7
Sander Braaksma   65   7
Robert Bradley   54   8
Adam Bragar   22   7
Gregory Breiner   49   4
Jakob Brekken   52   9
Alex Brenes   31   4
Humberto Brenes   36   7
Luke Brennan   61   8
Stephen Brite   58   4
Tomas Brolin   58   5
Joseph Brooks   35   5
Kyle Brossia   14   6
Chad Brown   25   8
Sean Bruder   2   5
Patrick Bruel   34   3
Michiel Brummelhuis   34   6
Lance Bruner   1   5
Daniel Burke   33   5
Tony Calvin Burton   45   8
Peter Busch   21   5
Rhett Buttler   50   8
Gregory Byard   12   3
Blake Cahail   56   6
Bill Campbell   5   8
Rhynie Campbell   32   2
Howie Campbell   41   8
Kyle Cannon   21   1
Joseph Cappello   26   8
Jakob Carlsson   44   3
Eugenio Carmoneto   9   9
Daniel Carter   38   8
Peter Chan   20   1
William Chen   22   4
Tommy Chen   47   3
Mathew Cherackal   26   5
Brian Chesnutt   44   1
Glen Chorny   12   9
Peter Christensen   53   2
Jason Christian   4   7
Umberto Cianfanelli   49   9
Jim Cleveborg   32   3
Louis Cohen   31   5
Ouri Cohen   34   8
David Colclough   39   3
Ryan Collett   14   5
James Collopy   26   3
Allisen Connor   59   8
Philip Consolo   8   4
Michael Cooper   25   1
Anthony Cousineau   48   4
Benjamin Crabbe   13   6
Chris Crawford   38   4
James Crockett   46   7
José Cuenca   7   7
Arthur Czuta   43   9
Chris Danek   41   4
Ryan D'Angelo   62   4
Guillame De La Gorce   29   4
Eric De Regt   8   5
Ricardo De Sousa   47   7
Douglas De Voogel   40   9
Thomas Dekker   47   6
Robert Delaney   52   6
Wilhelmina Detz   26   7
John Dibella,   19   4
Tyler Dickinson   16   2
Joseph Dimartino   53   4
Chris Dombrowski   61   1
Daniel Donati   58   1
Randy Dorfman   11   8
Jason Dorfman   13   8
Dustin Dorrance-Bowman   52   2
Jonathan Drane   64   5
Shae Drobushevich   43   4
Kristoffer Edberg   49   6
Jonas Egeberg   45   7
Kristian Eklund   59   1
Rupert Elder   26   1
Joseph Elpayaa   8   2
Robert Emond   19   3
Alexander Eriksson   64   1
Victor Escudero   29   7
Hans Eskilsson   45   3
Josh Evans   41   5
Joshua Ewing   55   6
Kevin Eyring   49   3
Bill Ezzo   11   9
Dennis Fabian   37   6
David Farber   33   7
Kofi Farkye   23   8
Gerhard Farmer   15   6
James Ferguson   30   4
David Ferrante   4   6
Rosamelia Ferreia   26   9
Gerard Fitt   27   7
Harold Fitzpatrick   15   5
Arthur Flangas   26   6
Robert Ford   16   5
Erik Franssohn   25   5
Scott Freeman   27   2
Hunter Frey   38   7
Erik Friberg   43   5
Richard Furay   39   5
Robert Futia   18   8
Sean Gardiner   29   6
Michael Gaubert   37   4
Peter Gelencser   36   1
Richard Geyer   61   5
Carter Gill   51   6
Daniel Gimbel   26   4
Matthew Glantz   57   5
William Goff Jr   34   9
Alexandre Gomez   18   9
Brett Goodall   44   5
Peter Gould   16   9
Craig Gray   20   6
Maxwell Greenwood   9   4
Sam Greenwood   42   4
Luc Greenwood   61   6
Anthony Gregg   64   7
Chris Grigorian   48   9
Ben Grise   5   5
Bertrand Grospellier   13   7
Jimmie Guinther   56   5
Andreas Hagen   32   6
Jeffrey Hakim   13   3
Patrick Hallett   63   3
Joseph Hammerman   38   5
Tyler Hammond   34   7
Tae Han   45   4
Sam Hankins   1   3
Niko Hanninen   43   2
Thor Hansen   43   1
Christian Harder   4   4
Jeremy Harkin   57   8
Fredrik Haugen   8   3
Brian Hawkins   65   1
Isaac Haxton   23   4
William Haydon   12   8
Jonathan Heath   17   3
Olvedo Heinze   31   6
Jason Helder   63   6
Juha Helppi   23   2
Kim Hemmingsen   20   5
Emil Henriksson   60   4
David Héon-Althot   46   4
Dennis Hermens   23   3
Kenneth Hicks Jr   17   6
William Hill   1   6
Phillip Hilm   54   5
Larry Hirschfield   34   2
Mikael Hogbom   53   7
Emil Holmsten   13   1
Paul Holub   29   9
Craig Hopkins   42   1
Carl Hostrup-Pedersen   51   4
Adam Hourani   9   2
Ryan Hughes   24   1
Nathan Huvelle   24   3
Ian Isakson   55   4
Saul Ivan   23   6
Jonathan James   56   4
Joris Jaspers   12   2
Peter Jetten   41   1
Mikael Johansson   28   5
Randall Johnson   32   7
Kyle Johnson   51   7
Aaron Jones   18   2
Michael Joosse   11   7
Uri Kadosh   24   8
Benjamin Kang   5   2
Dana Karlson   14   7
Eugene Katchalou   35   8
Michael Katz   46   1
Stefan Katz   54   7
Matt Kay   42   5
Patrick Kelly   17   2
Daniel Kelly   33   2
Jeff Kennedy   30   9
Zaidi Khoury   32   9
Eugene Kim   22   2
Raffi King   59   4
Dmitriy Kirin   51   5
Stephan Kjerstad   5   4
Kristian Kjondal   39   8
Travis Klein   55   2
Anthony Klemm   63   7
Horst Koch   32   5
Robert Kostesky   65   5
Robert Kovar   30   7
Andreas Krause   45   1
Mathias Kuerschner   44   8
Wilfred Kullman   25   2
Yves Kupfermunz   17   5
Kris Kuykendall   42   6
Valdemar Aros Kwaysser   43   6
Ludovic Lacay   50   7
David Lacoste   52   8
Regent Lacroix   61   3
Joshua Ladines   52   4
Eric Ladny   59   3
Tore Lagerborg   64   3
Tuan Lam   10   5
James Lampropoulos   60   3
Nada Lantz   51   2
Christopher Lardaro   28   4
Matthew Larsen   41   2
Jason Laso   8   7
Ted Lawson   7   1
Dinh Le   36   9
Chris Lee   32   8
Kenneth Lee   38   1
Samuel Lehtonen   35   3
Gary Lent   48   5
Aaron Lerner   6   6
Chris Leveroni   9   8
Nicolas Levi   8   6
Jason Levine   2   3
Brett Levitzke   38   3
Adam Levy   19   7
Mark Levy   43   8
Andrew Lichtenberger   1   7
Kathy Liebert   6   9
Irina Liepina   39   1
George Lind III   23   1
Björn Lindblom   23   7
Jonathan Little   54   4
Eric Liu   36   3
Raúl Lleida   57   3
Donald Lloyd   33   6
Johnny Lodden   18   1
Efrain Lopez   30   3
Nikolay Losev   56   7
Craig Loucks   24   9
Rami Ltaif   25   4
Tony Ltaif   44   9
Dan-Martin Lundenius   41   3
Otto Lundstrom   2   10
George Lusby   54   2
Eric Lynch   38   9
Norman Macdonald   64   8
Gracz Maciek   43   7
James Mackey   16   7
Nicholas Maimone   57   4
Amit Makhija   17   7
Minaya Manelic   21   8
Michael Martin   10   8
Marcel Martin   19   8
Nicolas Martin   22   3
Jose Martinez-Rincon   48   8
Zack Mason   40   2
Mohammad Masoud   56   8
Arnaud Mattern   36   6
Ville Mattila   65   2
Bourbonnais Maurice   13   4
Carl Mccallum   30   5
Tom McCormick   20   9
Grant McCrea   48   6
James Mccrink   6   3
Charles McCrink   42   8
Trevor McGoona   49   1
Garth Mclellan   60   6
Michael Melin   2   1
Jeremy Menard   46   6
Jonathaon Mercer   50   5
Jason Mercier   14   1
Joseph Michael   12   6
Alex Michaels   3   2
Viatcheslav Mikhailiouk   28   3
Brian Miller   46   8
Arthur Minetz   7   6
Dario Minieri   10   3
Sorel Mizzi   44   2
Chris Moneymaker   2   4
Sam Morda El Sayeda   20   7
David Morgan   3   5
Thomas Mørland   12   4
Austin Mullins   63   8
Don Mullis   15   9
Fernando Muniz   3   9
Simón Muñóz   65   3
Simon Munz   36   8
Stephen Murphy   2   2
Larry Murphy   5   1
Lev Myrymsiky   49   7
Edward Nassif II   34   4
Lionel Nazarian   53   1
Peter Neff   63   5
Matthias Neu   53   3
Pierre Neuville   37   2
Yann Nevé   57   7
Nick Newkirk   29   3
Gary Newman   25   3
Jon Neyir   4   1
Duc Nguy   11   6
Anh Nguyen   2   7
Søren Nielsen   11   4
Lars-Egil Nielsen   21   9
Frank Nielsen   34   5
Nick Niergarth   48   3
Bob Nolen   30   2
Alessandro Nuccetelli   6   8
Julien Nuijten   59   2
Kevin O'Keefe   22   8
Patrick O'Malley   50   6
Andrew Overby   28   1
Luca Pagano   11   3
Alain Pageau   37   8
Jeffrey Papola   20   2
Stuart Paterson   4   2
John Patgorski   48   2
Jospeh Patrick   1   8
Jospeh Patrick   2   8
Steve Paul-Ambrose   25   6
Arthur Peacock   57   1
Jorg Peisert   39   9
Rodney Pennington   26   2
Christian Pereira   59   5
Diego Pérez   3   7
Jean Perrot   57   6
David Peters   6   1
Benedikt Peters   35   6
David Pham   30   1
John Phan   46   9
Andy Philachack   7   9
Simon Philipp   3   10
Rohr Philippe   18   7
Justin Phillips   19   6
Jacob Phillips   62   3
Steve Phipps   64   6
Grayson Physioc   24   6
Luigi Pignataro   50   9
William Pilossoph   38   6
Dale Pinchot   7   8
Sean Pitzer   16   6
Brian Powell   44   6
Josh Prager   6   5
Robert Preston   47   1
Ian Prevost   27   5
John Procopion   50   2
Allan Puzontyan   33   9
John Racener   14   9
Rick Rahim   49   8
Annand Ramdin   15   4
David Randall   57   2
Thomas Rau   53   6
Benjamin Reed   9   7
Soren Reffstrup   58   3
Otto Richard   2   6
Michael Ries   37   5
Thomas Rintzel   24   2
Gregory Ripert   52   7
Hans Ritburg   33   3
Brent Roberts   39   7
Jesse Rockowitz   34   1
Zev Roher   27   3
Justin Rollo   14   2
Gregory Ronaldson   3   8
Kenneth Rosen   63   4
Abraham Rosenkrantz   13   2
Adam Ross   13   9
Anthony Roux   61   2
John Roveto   22   1
Jonathan Rozema   58   8
Daan Ruiter   45   2
Pier Ruscalla   48   7
Sergey Rybachen   5   6
Mikhael Saakian   19   1
Francois Safieddine   25   9
Gualter Salles   41   9
Antonio Salorio   16   8
Adam Sanders   24   5
Thomas Santoli   32   4
Luis Santoni   33   4
Trevor Saunders   37   9
Dave Scatchard   54   6
Kevin Schaffel   62   8
Joan Schank   44   4
Kevin Scholtz   47   8
Nicholas Schulman   33   8
David Schultz   1   9
Andrew Schultz   39   2
Noah Schwartz   47   2
Davide Sciabbarrasi   52   5
Jonathan Screeney   44   7
Joe Sebok   3   4
William Seery Jr   14   3
Erik Seidel   16   4
Steve Seidler   52   1
Luis Sevilla   54   3
Bryan Shaffer   27   9
Jason Sherman   31   8
Michael Shields   46   5
Daniel Shiff   28   8
Dov Shiff   30   8
John Shipley   55   7
Shannon Shorr   7   3
Adam Shuman   31   3
Rudy Sibley   35   9
Steven Silverman   4   9
Mario Silvestri   29   5
Jamshidi Sirous   60   8
Guy Sitbon   58   6
Jordan Smith   5   3
John Smith   14   8
Greg Smith   20   3
Justin Smith   20   8
Robert Smith   24   7
Daniel Smith   35   7
Jonathan Snyder   36   5
David Sonelin   14   4
William Spadea   40   6
Ben Stark   10   6
Karl Stark   37   7
Brad Stebeleski   55   5
Johannes Steindl   6   7
Edward Steitz   11   5
Danny Stiegler   21   2
Federico Stivoli   32   1
Mauro Stivoli   61   7
Thomas Stringer   22   6
Jason Strochak   27   8
Julien Studley   63   2
Jack Sturgeon   5   7
Ray Sukkar   62   2
Freddy Sumanth   51   1
Steven Tabb   60   2
Sylvain Taddei   12   1
Anton Talle   10   9
Stuart Taylor   10   4
Andrew Teng   54   1
Katja Thater   41   6
Julian Thew   27   4
Raymond Thomas Jr   19   5
Derek Thorpe   31   2
Dean Thurman   50   4
Roger Tichenor   45   9
Luis Tier   12   7
Johan Til   23   5
Keith Tilston   40   5
Evan Tindell   10   2
Christian Toboc   16   1
Eugene Todd   39   6
Eric Tomberlin   60   1
Peter Topos   15   8
Richard Toth   29   1
Wade Townsend   56   1
Eric Tracy   18   6
Igor Trafane   42   9
Dang Trai   2   9
David Tran   10   7
Thithi Tran,   52   3
Kevin Trieu   10   1
Elton Tsang   40   1
Vandenbergh Tycho   40   7
Jose Valero   1   10
Thierry Van Den Berg   37   3
Eric Van Der Burg   59   7
Arthur Van der Meeren   21   7
Derek Vandamme   45   5
Hans-Ari Varsi   43   3
Mark Venegoni   60   7
Alexander Venovski   9   6
Marcel Verhaegen   47   4
Jeremiah Vinsant   7   5
Francis Vizza   19   9
Jan Von Halle   58   2
Pascal Vullion   53   8
Alexandra Vuong   40   4
Trygve Wahlbeck   1   1
Reid Walker   46   3
Christopher Walsh   12   5
Anderson Walters III   37   1
Dennis Waterman   65   6
Steve Weinstein   15   1
Robert Weiss   30   6
Julien Wellhoff   62   7
David Wells   56   3
Mohammad Wesali   19   2
Tom West   7   2
Tim West   21   3
Bart Wetsteijn   42   3
Pat White   55   8
Alex Wice   9   5
Trevor Williams   28   6
Jeff Williams   63   1
Scott Wilson   18   3
Brent Wilty   35   1
James Wisemiller   4   5
Robert Wisiak   28   9
Ben Wolbers   42   2
Thaddeus Wolff   65   8
Danny Wong   7   4
Brett Woodard   59   6
Richard Wyrick   64   2
Roman Yitzhaki   18   5
Ryan Young   1   4
Jacques Zaicik   28   2
Benjamin Zamani   55   3
Aleksandrs Zaravins   6   4
Mauro Zarlenga   21   6
Stanislav Zavoyskiy   41   7
John Zioulas   47   5
Richard Zipes   29   8
Flavio Zumbini   51   8

[snoopy1239]

After pulling his head back over water, Dave Colclough has sunk back down to 12k after running A-K into Kings. During the break, tablemate Julian Thew informed El Blondie that everyone at the table was a rock except seat Nine. Seat Nine had the Kings.

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Frederik Haugen, who finalled in the London EPT, is now OUT. He re-raised all-in from late position with , but, after a lengthy dwell, was finally looked up by Mateyboy's . A board later and Haugen was done and dusted.

[NoflopsHomer]

I'm told we're close to the 290 players we were originally going to finish at, but instead we're actually going to play through this level and 45 minutes of the 500/1000/100 level. The same will then be done tomorrow.

[snoopy1239]

Tomas Brolin -- 22,400
Julian Thew -- 24,400
Dave Colclough -- 21,500
Rupert Elder -- 16,850
Bertrand Grospellier -- 100,000
Ted Lawson -- 27,075
Kathy Liebert -- 31,200
Thor Hansen -- 17,900
Soren Kongsgaard -- 22,350
Rhett Butler -- 36,725
Josh Arieh -- 35,000
Michael Martin -- 85,00
S Taylor -- 32,325
Humberto Brenes -- 39,400
Hans Eskillson -- 27,450
Johnny Lodden -- 53,775
Nicolas Levi -- 47,275
Irena Liepina -- 80,225
Guillaume de la Gorce -- 23,625
David Pham -- 92,800
Issac Haaxton -- 24,350
Victor Ramdin -- 8,000
Thierry Van Den Berg -- 41,000
Peter Gould -- 28,200
Ryan Collette -- 165,000

[snoopy1239]

"Just call me Mr Yo-yo," requests Dave Colclough as he nurses a newly acquired stack 21,500. He didn't seem too keen to elaborate at first, and initially I had to hear the news from Julian, but El Blondie doubled up with A-Q versus A-K, a cheeky flush hitting the River.

Julian, meanwhile, has dropped down to 24,400 after making what he believed to be a "terrible bluff" on the river with a missed flush draw.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dan Carter is MIA whilst John Phan has doubled up with Queens against Jacks.

Katja Thater is OUT, Kings against Aces. All day grinding away to build a stack and it disappears in an instant.

[snoopy1239]

With the day drawing to a close, I thought I'd have a quick scour around the arena to find out who'd be going home happy chappies. Rumour has it that Ryan Collette is our chip leader with circa 180k, but I am yet to find the little rascal. For the time being, you'll have to make do with this motley crew.

Alex Michaels -- 125,000
Johan Berquist -- 110,000
Stephan_Kjerstad -- 129,000
Steve Paul-Ambrose -- 147,000
Tore Lagerborg -- 92,700

[NoflopsHomer]

Play has now finished for the day as the laborious bag 'n' tagging process takes place.

We'll restart once more tomorrow at 12pm (5pm UK time) where another 500+ players will be taking their shot at glory.