Pokerstars.com Bahamas EPT: Day 1B - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Karl Mahrenholz's seat is empty, which either means he has shrunk so small that we can't see him, perhaps like that bit at the end of Beetlejuice when Michael Keaton's head has shrinking dust sprinkled over it, or, and quite possibly the more likely of the two explanations, he is out.

One of the guys on Karl's table is Clayton Newman, who is a big poster over on 2+2. He made a very funny comment last night after seeing his table draw.

my table draw has nothing but live euros with little record save one guy who is a member of some diet-coke version of the hendon mob.

First his Red Hand Gang gets dissed, and now he's out. Bad day at the office for Karl, it would seem.

How can he say that when David Benyamine was on the table??

[snoopy1239]

The Magnificent Seven...

Damn, hold on, I've got eight. Was there a Magnificent Eight by any chance?

Gavin Griffin -- 110,000



Julio Marines -- 108,000



Marco Savoni -- 102,300



Samuel Oberlin -- 97,000



Brian Lindsay -- 96,000



Clay Maguire -- 80,000



Asa Smith -- 79,325



Nate Melvin -- 73,400

[snoopy1239]

Just as I contemplate going to the toilet, the players race out for their 15 minute break. I have consequently decided to hold it in for another 15 minutes.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tronde Eidsvig is OUT, he pushed with Eights, a guy who hadn't seen his push raised, but was forced to re-raise Tronde's bet with A-4. The big blind also shoved with Tens, but Mr A-4 spiked his Ace on the turn.

Oh, and todays' Laak-alike.

[snoopy1239]

Here are a few chips counts that I thought you might be interested in. If there is anyone esle you want an update, please let us know. Players move around quite frequently and it's very easy to miss people, so please give us a reminder if we have forgotten anyone.

Laurence Houghton -- 33,375
Nick Gibson -- 39,500
Stephen Pearce -- 39,025
Isabelle Mercier -- 23,225
Daniel Negreanu -- 31,575
James Akenhead -- 8,675
TJ Cloutier -- 66,200
Adebayo Odetoyinbo -- 28,000

No sign of Chris Odle or Ryan Daut.

[snoopy1239]

It took longer than expected, but the Ade Bayo spiel has finally been prised out, and what a flurry of verbal diarrhea it was.

All-in from early position, the action halted at Yankieboy down the other end of the table who carefully contemplated his decision.

"Just in case," says Ade raising from his seat.

"I think you have Queen or King high," he adds.

"You've been thinking for a while now, that's a good sign."

"Your hand can't be that good."

"I have too short of a stack, I have to make a move."

"This is my lucky hand."

At this point, Yankieboy somehow managed to sneak in a word, a simple "go on then" as he made the call.

"Have you got an Ace?" asked Ade, holding his cards aloft without actually showing them.

As Yankieboy shrugs, Ade reveals , comfortably ahead of his opponent's . "That's good, nice hand," he confesses dejectedly. As the board comes out, Ade finally zips up and you can almost sense him chanting "No Ace, no Ace, no Ace" in his head. And Ade would have got his wish, the board coming a harmless . But if you thought that was the end of the 'talk', then think again my pretties.

"I'm back."

"One more of those and I'll be dangerous."

"Just when you thought it would be peace and quiet."

"I was worried that someone was going to say 'Noooo, don't call, he's a rock.'"

"I'm only crazy in the big blind, the rest of the time I've got the goods. I know people always say that, but it's the truth."

And on that note, I decided I had enough for my report and duly scampered off into the distance as Ade's mouth continued to motor away.

[NoflopsHomer]

TJ Cloutier is OUT. He was goading his opponent to move in on the river of a board saying, "Come on, just put your chips in the middle." which said opponent, Asa Smith, did. TJ instantly called and Asa showed for the flopped flush.

"Flush?" said the veteran, looking back at his cards, "Flush is good." He mucked and then left the table...




This guy wins 'Most Drinks on the table' award...

[nsidestrate]

Here are a few chips counts that I thought you might be interested in. If there is anyone esle you want an update, please let us know. Players move around quite frequently and it's very easy to miss people, so please give us a reminder if we have forgotten anyone.

There are a bunch of us at Matthew Hilger's forum watching you religiously (at least when we're not in hands).  He usually lets us know when he's out, but cell coverage is bad there, so we can't even be sure of that.

[taximan007]

The Magnificent Seven...

Damn, hold on, I've got eight. Was there a Magnificent Eight by any chance?


Maybe in the remake they allowed Alternates?

[NoflopsHomer]

Added to the list of Brits playing today is, Andy Lowe aka 'Goldenboys' as directed to us by Stuart Taylor, he's got 40k.



There's still over 300 people in the comp as we reach the final 45 minutes of the comp.





Gavin Grifffin has managed to bleed almost all his chips away, first losing with A-K against 6-6 on a A-Q-6 board. That left him with around 50k, but he's now just down to 15k having folded on the river to a push on a .

[NoflopsHomer]

Here are a few chips counts that I thought you might be interested in. If there is anyone esle you want an update, please let us know. Players move around quite frequently and it's very easy to miss people, so please give us a reminder if we have forgotten anyone.

There are a bunch of us at Matthew Hilger's forum watching you religiously (at least when we're not in hands).  He usually lets us know when he's out, but cell coverage is bad there, so we can't even be sure of that.

Will have a gander now.

[snoopy1239]

Although he exploded out of the blocks and became the first player to break that 100k mark, Gavin Griffin has exploded again, but this time in the wrong sense as he has now self-exploded his way down to 49k after making a mistimed move against Neville Desai pictured below.

With 20-25k in the pot and a board of , Neville bet 5k from the small blind only for Gavin to riffle his chips, tilt his head slightly and shove in a re-raise of 17,000 more, virtually all of Neville's remaining chips.

Before Gavin had barely pushed his raise over the line, Neville jumped out of his chair like a leaping salmon being ejected from the passenger seat of an aeroplane and announced "call" in double quick time.

Gavin turned over , and Neville showed a straight, to take down a pot and a 80 plus k stack.

[snoopy1239]

We haven't quite discovered how he accrued his Mount Everest, but Brian Lindsay is your current chip leader with a quite monstrous 205,000.

Aye carumba! 

[snoopy1239]

Chip leader Brian Lindsay may be a dot to everyone else in the chasing field, but leading that pack relatively comfortably is Julio Marines who has just elevated his stack to 170k after eliminating Yankieboy. On a board, Yankieboy pushed all-in and Julio called, his in great shape against an inferior . A on the River was of no use and Julio was able to cement his second place spot.

[snoopy1239]

There aren't too many dirty stacks, but here's one, and isn't it filthy? The filth meister seated behind it is Eric Koskas, who apparently plays most of the EPTs and WPTS, but was last seen by blonde poker at the 2006 Grand Prix de Paris.

"He's a great player," comments a fellow Frenchman watching from the rail. "great, but crazy."