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

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478 players return today, playing for a first prize of around $2 million dollars, the full prize money listings should be coming later today.

Last night we had the Media tournament featuring top names like Tom McEvoy, Barry Greenstein and Snoops. I managed to bluff half my stack off early doors, with A-J on a Q-T-8-3-Q board against T-9, before sucking out completely masterfully outplaying Tuan Lam and knocking him out by shoving with and getting him to call with his inferior knowing that I was going to hit. Sadly I ended up losing with A-K against another player's Sevens, though I won the side pot against Tom McEvoy's Queens after the board came K-x-x-x-7. Snoopy managed to make the final table before going all-in blind against A-J and A-8 and turned over 7-2. He lost. So rigged. Ok, the structure wasn't great but these little tournaments are really good fun, especially with the great atmosphere that's always in the media room.

Brian Lindsay   22   3   225,875
Asa Smith   31   9   223,775
Julio Marines   55   9   186,475
Ryan Collett   47   2   176,450
Steve Paul-Ambrose   51   1   170,925
Diego Pérez   7   7   169,100
Stephan Kjerstad   50   1   144,575
Jared Mahoney   22   6   142,650
Marco Savoni   14   7   141,925
Duy Le   59   5   141,800
Eric Lynch   52   8   141,675
Joshua Ewing   37   1   137,875
Johan Til   7   8   137,225
Cero Zuccarello   39   8   135,325
Robert Lederer   53   6   130,200
José Cuenca   5   1   129,950
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier   50   9   123,825
Allisen Connor   26   2   121,000
Johan Bergqvist   52   7   120,075
Dmitriy Kirin   30   3   118,325
David Truong Whitley   43   3   112,975
David Mcnew   23   1   110,425
Josh Arieh   44   1   109,800
Clayton Maguire   42   2   109,250
Tore Lagerborg   17   7   103,950
Adam Bragar   6   3   101,025
Michael Benedetto   19   1   100,575
Andrew Teng   46   3   99,600
Stuart Taylor   37   4   99,375
Raúl Lleida   12   4   98,550
Matt Greenwood   31   4   98,150
Ziad Alameddine   36   1   97,475
Dave Scatchard   3   7   95,975
Allan Puzontyan   20   7   95,400
Michael Martin   20   2   95,025
Daniel Negreanu   21   6   93,950
Robert Weiss   6   2   92,500
Aleksey Bobrov   33   5   91,800
Nick Gibson   50   6   91,625
Jared Eischeid   24   6   91,400
Duncan Bell   23   8   91,000
Ottavio Tassone   58   7   89,600
Charles McCrink   10   7   89,275
Richard Geyer   4   6   89,125
David Wells   7   2   88,150
Jesse Chinni   26   4   87,300
Stanislav Zavoyskiy   35   4   86,250
Christian Harder   36   9   86,025
Alex Michaels   14   6   85,000
Roger Tichenor   48   7   85,000
Ryan D'Angelo   8   6   84,775
Jason Glass   24   4   83,350
Jacob Walsh   52   9   82,850
Olvedo Heinze   55   4   82,450
Frederik Agersnap   7   9   82,350
Irina Liepina   13   7   82,125
Matt Rosen   57   6   81,975
Rhett Buttler   21   5   81,800
Steve Gross   13   4   80,850
Evan Roberts   38   3   80,750
Jonas Egeberg   47   5   80,725
Michael Brigante   10   3   80,000
Randy Dorfman   19   6   79,875
Deepak Patel   5   7   79,600
Peter Dumdeang   18   1   79,200
Simon Munz   18   5   79,200
Bill Ezzo   36   7   79,100
Harold Fitzpatrick   41   6   78,775
William Kopp Jr   41   1   78,650
Samuel Oberlin   52   3   78,200
Yueqi Zhu   58   8   78,200
Peter Jetten   17   6   76,775
Mauro Stivoli   59   3   76,400
Davidi Kitai   20   5   76,375
Matthew Giannetti   25   6   76,100
Justin Rollo   21   9   75,450
James Jewett   32   3   75,175
Philippe Rohr   28   3   74,775
Kevin Schaffel   45   2   74,650
Daniel Stern   27   9   74,600
Justin Wright   5   5   73,950
Daniel Burke   28   6   73,675
David Pham   10   2   73,325
Mike Vesia   2   9   73,000
Joseph Elpayaa   21   7   72,800
Bradley Schaaf   14   8   72,700
Navil Desai   31   8   72,250
Benjamin Yogel   60   5   71,400
Kristoffer Edberg   12   5   71,350
William Thorson   26   9   71,000
Håkon Bentsen   48   4   70,200
Eric Liu   54   7   70,075
Martin Mehdi   3   9   70,000
Craig Hopkins   4   7   69,925
Zev Roher   41   3   69,875
Michael Roe   33   8   69,475
Fredrik Jerndahl   42   9   69,050
Joseph Dimartino   34   1   68,700
Kris Kuykendall   41   4   68,675
Anthony Cousineau   23   7   68,525
Nicolas Levi   11   7   68,175
Jameson Painter   31   7   68,125
Hans Winzeler   44   5   67,300
Michael Cooper   16   3   66,225
Dennis Petronack   28   8   66,200
Lee Markholt   54   4   66,050
John Myung   38   2   65,925
Ross Romash   31   5   65,875
Mike Gorodinsky   48   3   65,800
Kai Herold   35   6   65,250
Jacob Petersen   6   4   65,250
Bryan Colin   9   9   64,975
Tony Calvin Burton   3   5   64,850
David Lacoste   14   1   64,775
Zack Stewart   60   9   64,600
Garrett Adelstein   15   9   64,225
Frank Nielsen   50   8   63,425
Cole South   17   2   62,975
Fuk-Sang Johnson   35   9   62,900
Eric Koskas   43   1   62,875
Mark Venegoni   49   7   62,800
Markus Ross   29   4   62,725
Pierre Neuville   49   2   62,550
Stephen Dudley   36   6   62,350
Daniel Smith   10   8   62,100
Noah Schwartz   8   7   62,000
Justin Marsh   43   8   60,875
Matt Zoorob   2   1   60,875
Chris Crawford   9   6   60,700
Magnus Karlsson   41   2   60,525
Sander Braaksma   25   2   59,925
Brian Hawkins   41   9   59,400
Christopher Klodnicki   52   5   59,225
Jason Levine   40   5   59,175
Jon Neyir   22   1   58,650
Chris Moneymaker   19   3   58,600
Eric Van der Burg   4   8   58,400
Valdemar Kwaysser   60   7   58,225
Don Mullis   33   1   58,200
Thierry Van Den Berg   26   3   58,150
Patrick Blye   50   2   58,000
Sean Gardiner   57   9   57,300
Andre Akkari   11   6   57,275
Alexander Eriksson   31   1   57,250
John Bird   44   8   56,625
Glen Chorny   49   3   56,375
Richard Furay   49   8   56,350
Sam Subilia   37   5   56,250
Adam Green   19   9   56,150
David Potts   31   6   56,075
Noah Boeken   29   5   56,000
Christian Toboc   54   3   55,650
Frank Rusnak   3   8   55,300
Paul Holub   46   2   55,250
Robert Ford   57   2   55,000
Humberto Brenes   59   7   54,875
Hugo Spangenberg   60   1   54,750
Nathaniel Melvin   53   3   54,125
Erik Cajelais   21   2   54,100
Hevad Khan   50   5   54,050
Greg Smith   42   8   53,725
Jonathan Screeney   10   9   53,625
David Benefield   21   8   53,550
Steven Weinstock   7   4   53,525
Kyle Molik   32   4   53,400
Bradley Craig   33   4   53,300
Stephen Murphy   2   8   53,200
Christophe Benzimra   6   7   53,200
Marcel Kleczka   42   1   52,900
Minaya Manelic   51   6   52,600
Wilhelmina Detz   39   3   52,200
Benjamin Reed   49   6   52,075
Gasperino Loiacono   34   7   52,025
Mike Chiappetta   27   4   52,000
Jack Damsky   15   6   51,450
John Zioulas   15   4   51,350
Eugenio Carmoneto   30   4   51,300
Jonathan Aguiar   36   5   51,275
Thomas Gilles   54   9   51,200
Michael Wywrot   33   3   51,050
Maxime Villemure   44   2   50,825
Per Ravn   12   6   49,900
Victor Escudero   46   7   49,600
Jeffrey Papola   18   3   49,225
James Chiddy   45   3   49,200
Tom McEvoy   29   8   49,000
Johnny Lodden   32   1   48,900
Scott Buller   33   7   48,825
Thomas Ilg   3   6   48,825
Daniel Grolemund   41   8   48,525
Rami Boukai   34   9   48,475
David Héon-Althot   44   4   48,275
Fredrik Andersson   3   3   48,225
Jonathan Drane   40   1   48,200
John Roveto   13   3   48,175
Aleksander Bolotin   52   4   47,950
Barry Greenstein   16   7   47,550
Christopher Andler   32   2   47,175
Aurangzeb Sheikh   32   8   46,975
Peter Schneider   28   2   46,900
Erlend Melsom   22   2   46,775
Xuantien Nguyen   35   1   46,775
Daniel Shiff   24   3   46,675
John Buchanan   20   6   46,450
Nick Niergarth   9   8   46,225
Jeremy Harkin   47   3   46,075
Brent Bibby   13   1   46,000
James D'Ambrosio   18   6   45,850
Gary Haglund   43   5   45,400
Reuben Peters   5   3   45,325
Spencer Hudson   28   1   45,275
Jean-Pierre Gleize   57   5   44,875
Tyler Reiman   29   7   44,875
Samuel Chartier   42   3   44,800
Thomas Dolezal   29   2   44,500
Jonathan Lessin   59   6   44,500
Ville Mattila   51   7   44,475
James Wisemiller   16   8   44,300
Dean Murphy   42   5   44,250
Mikael Hogbom   11   1   43,850
Claude Marbleu   23   5   43,775
Keith Tilston   43   4   43,450
Hans-Ari Varsi   12   3   43,425
Rosamelia Ferreia   39   4   43,050
James Ferguson   11   4   43,000
Robert Wisiak   19   4   43,000
Christopher Walsh   37   7   42,975
Steven Tague   34   5   42,900
Emil Henriksson   46   8   42,875
Anirudh Seth   3   2   42,800
Michael Ries   1   7   42,550
Spencer Lawrence   52   6   42,050
Ted Lawson   11   2   42,000
Samuel Lehtonen   12   1   41,975
Marius Olsvik   35   2   41,950
Freddy Sumanth   43   2   41,650
Travis Klein   16   4   41,550
Bill Kontaratos   5   8   41,350
Thomas Koral   23   4   41,225
Clayton Mozdzen   58   6   41,175
Patrick O'Brien   34   3   41,025
Jonathan Tamayo   60   2   40,700
John Dibella   47   6   40,650
Joshua Herman   59   8   40,500
Joel Bidnick   9   7   40,350
Christian Taepper   60   3   40,350
Patrick Devlin   51   8   40,075
Curtis Wenger   43   9   39,450
Jens Eriksson   40   8   39,300
Chad Batista   28   7   39,250
Ian Prevost   39   1   39,200
Stefan Hansen   26   7   39,050
Michael Pino   4   2   38,725
Kai-Are Hauge   4   1   38,575
Bill Edler   8   2   38,525
Mark Skorvanek   29   6   38,400
Sam Shamburg   16   1   38,375
Guy Tomaselli   33   2   38,250
Rodney Pennington   51   5   37,750
Derek Wark   54   8   37,600
Robert Delaney   5   2   37,475
Regent Lacroix   37   8   37,350
Jonathan Rozema   37   2   37,350
Chris Gallagher   6   5   36,875
Lionel Nazarian   46   5   36,500
Jeffrey Neuman   25   5   36,325
Patrick Sullivan   53   2   36,225
Brent Haverty   27   2   36,125
Justin Smith   18   4   35,875
David Greenberg   60   8   35,650
Jason Glatzer   22   8   35,500
Brandon Becker   6   1   35,325
Gregory Byard   30   7   35,175
Eli Perlman   53   4   35,025
Eric Benhamron   56   4   34,925
Jonathon Mercer   51   3   34,700
Christopher Bonita   2   5   34,675
Derek Vandamme   50   4   34,625
Thomas Santoli   32   9   34,400
Abraham Rosenkrantz   55   6   34,325
Robert Altman   9   5   34,300
Robert Preston   34   6   34,175
Isaac Baron   27   8   34,150
Lance Gettler   8   4   33,950
Marc Naalden   14   4   33,925
Joris Jaspers   30   6   33,825
Guy Sitbon   4   5   33,475
Andy Lowe   1   8   33,225
Michael Scala   50   3   33,050
Joe Pharo   45   4   33,025
Dale Pinchot   16   5   32,600
Peter Chedid   20   9   32,550
Greg Anda   26   8   32,475
Hafiz Khan   18   2   32,425
Benjamin Maerefat   7   3   32,250
Mark Levy   32   6   32,250
Eric Ladny   38   8   32,000
Erik Sjödin   10   1   31,975
Jonathan Zuchowski   48   6   31,925
Jesse Rockowitz   13   8   31,800
Jakob Brekken   27   1   31,800
Patrick Kelly   1   1   31,700
Elton Tsang   27   6   31,625
Dov Shiff   9   3   31,625
Michael Katz   30   9   31,400
Brett Puffer   58   3   31,300
David Schultz   24   9   31,175
Olaf Zeeuw   28   9   30,800
Ulrich Hauzirek   56   3   30,700
Kevin McColgan   59   1   30,400
Adrian Gavile   29   9   30,050
Marc Alioto   12   7   29,875
Christian Pereira   11   3   29,600
Phillip Fankhauser   25   1   29,525
George Lusby   55   7   29,500
Bill Campbell   25   7   29,200
James Pechac   53   9   29,150
Thomas Dekker   25   8   29,000
Scott Zakheim   39   9   28,875
Edward Shouse   38   4   28,700
Joseph Hammerman   14   2   28,675
Brett Levitzke   46   6   28,575
Eldon Wu   56   1   28,300
John Dutchak   24   8   28,000
Kevin Risener   15   3   27,950
Marius Pospiech   22   4   27,750
Thaddeus Wolff   29   1   27,650
Pietro Valente   48   8   27,600
Federico Stivoli   19   8   27,600
Stuart Paterson   20   4   27,500
Johan Mattsson   12   2   27,400
Gerald Lauderman   3   1   27,275
Reid Walker   53   8   27,200
James McCrink   46   4   27,100
Peter Chan   13   9   27,100
Jon Dull   35   7   27,075
Saul Ivan   17   8   26,625
Thanh Nguyen   41   5   26,575
Jospeh Aronesty   11   5   26,500
Richard Fohrenbach   1   3   26,300
Rory Brennan   40   2   26,050
Louis Cohen   15   1   25,900
Thithi Tran   14   9   25,850
Shamil Danilov   45   1   25,675
Eugene Katchalou   44   7   25,550
William Pilossoph   7   1   25,425
David Redlin   21   1   25,250
Tomas Brolin   12   8   25,000
Jimmy Dowda   58   1   24,850
Isabelle Mercier   45   7   24,825
Gregory Baird   40   9   24,575
Julien Wellhoff   28   4   24,550
Andri Arnþórsson   36   3   24,375
Chris Leveroni   49   5   24,200
Kevin Bryniczka   2   7   24,050
David Baker   16   9   24,025
Mikko Pirinen   7   6   24,000
Grayson Phystor   44   9   23,725
Jeffrey Neadom   2   4   23,675
Michael Nye   38   1   23,550
Michael Melin   40   6   23,500
Raymond Garcia   23   6   23,350
Markus Ritt   53   1   23,350
Stefan Katz   2   3   23,275
Eric Tomberlin   13   2   23,225
Evan Tindell   37   3   23,175
Bourbonnais Maurice   15   5   22,950
Bryan Shaffer   18   8   22,850
Hans Eskilsson   5   6   22,575
Andrew Anderson   13   6   22,500
Michael Schweiger   1   5   22,350
Thomas Kok   19   5   22,325
Davide Sciabbarrasi   58   5   22,075
Ben Grise   57   8   21,925
Brian Tracy   1   6   21,700
Arthur Van der Meeren   38   9   21,450
Gary Newman   5   9   21,400
Björn Lindblom   15   8   21,275
Bobba Sasidhar   2   2   21,200
Chris Pearsall   11   9   21,150
Michael Gaubert   47   7   21,075
Jim Cleveborg   16   6   21,000
Jason Brummell   25   9   20,900
Blair Hinkle   40   4   20,875
Peter Gould   24   5   20,850
Warren Silversmith   27   5   20,650
Stephen Devlin   22   5   20,500
Dennis Van Rijn   42   6   20,500
Peter Darvill   18   7   20,400
Arnaud Mattern   37   6   20,375
Robert Bradley   8   3   20,350
Mats Iremark   34   2   20,275
Barry Wiedemann   20   8   20,150
Jean-Claude Moussa   8   5   20,100
John Phan   10   6   20,050
Gerald Banach   17   9   19,800
Jimmy Pan   31   2   19,700
Niki Kollar   58   4   19,600
Laurence Houghton   44   3   19,575
Timo Hansio   48   9   19,125
Bill Brindise   4   9   19,075
Benjamin Sprengers   45   8   18,850
Fernando Saboya   25   4   18,625
Nicolas Atlan   45   5   18,550
Michael Tikoian   17   1   18,475
Christoph Niesert   48   2   18,400
Anton Talle   55   1   18,100
Jeteral Mitchell   24   7   18,000
Carter Gill   56   8   17,900
Jennifer Lam   36   8   17,825
Emil Timberg   33   9   17,725
Tyler Dickinson   20   3   17,700
Ray Sukkar   38   7   17,350
Victor Ramdin   8   1   17,300
Thor Hansen   54   5   17,300
Mikhael Saakian   8   8   17,200
Julian Thew   6   6   16,950
Dominik Stopka   15   2   16,625
Vincent Bos   32   5   16,600
James Sileo   24   2   16,575
Jonathan Friedberg   19   2   16,500
Dang Trai   40   7   16,425
Thomas Mørland   20   1   16,400
Chris Grigorian   49   4   16,275
James Lampropoulos   17   4   15,975
Hunter Frey   39   7   15,950
Danny Stiegler   39   5   15,875
Massimo Reynaud   47   4   15,850
Jacques Zaicik   46   9   15,700
Otto Richard   30   1   15,475
Joseph Michael   55   3   15,450
Raymond Thomas Jr.   47   9   15,425
Robin Van der Hoff   23   9   15,375
Byron Kaverman   43   7   15,200
Shane Fumerton   26   5   14,550
Steven Tabb   30   5   14,550
Lars-Egil Nielsen   34   4   14,500
Rob Sterken   22   7   14,375
Alexander Selishchev   36   2   14,150
Brian Dodsworth   42   7   14,075
Chris Lee   56   9   14,000
Guillaume De La Gorce   49   9   13,950
Trevor Williams   51   2   13,775
Tim Bennett   4   4   13,400
Sidney Chreem   55   8   13,175
Eric Tracy   30   2   13,175
Magnus Tollefsen   10   5   12,850
Sean Bruder   21   4   12,850
Peter Busch   35   5   12,700
David Colclough   45   9   12,650
Peter Garber   60   4   12,325
Darshan Shah   57   4   12,125
Robert Emond   47   8   12,025
Ryan Mackinnon   38   6   12,000
Andrew Lichtenberger   48   1   11,950
Kevin Zubek   57   1   11,875
Justin Phillips   17   5   11,625
Michael Meredith   52   1   11,600
Kathy Liebert   23   3   11,175
Nicholas Schulman   39   2   11,000
Tom West   51   4   10,650
Olive Laurent   55   5   10,375
Andrew Schultz   56   3   10,300
Ed Bender   26   1   10,250
Andrew Boccia   1   4   9,725
Shahin Moshirian   35   8   9,600
Jeremy Menard   9   1   8,875
Mats Båtnes   56   2   8,800
Søren Nielsen   56   7   8,475
Matt Sterling   57   3   8,000
Clayton Newman   14   3   7,700
Gary Blaby   59   4   7,425
Craig Loucks   58   9   7,300
Hugo Meijer   53   7   7,125
David Morgan   54   6   6,250
Mitesh Anjaria   9   4   5,875
James Crockett   1   9   4,400
James Akenhead   6   9   575

[NoflopsHomer]

James Akenhead is sadly, but predictably out, he was in the big blind, was live with 6-4 against , the player in seat 1 helpfully chipped in before the board was dealt, "Oh I passed 6-4 too, sorry."

The made a flush and James was OUT, "Should've stayed in bed..."

Thor Hansen was moved to his seat and immediately moved in first hand with Jacks, getting a call from Brandon Becker with Ace Queen. The Jack flopped and the mighty Thor doubled through.

Arnaud Mattern is OUT. "The cut-off raises, I shove from the small blind with Jacks and the big blind wakes up with Kings..."

Aurangzeb Sheikh just lost a chunk to Marc Levy, Marc makes it 3k from the button, Ozzy87 made it 11k and Levy then pushed for 32k total, as one of the his helpful friends described the action, "There's no way Marc doesn't have the best hand here," he whispered to me. And certainly it seemed that way as Ozzy was contemplating calling off another 20k or so for the 40k in the pot, he obviously knew he was behind, but eventually decided to fold. A good job too as Marc showed him the bullets.

[snoopy1239]

British player Trevor Williams just lucked out, and I'm sure he won't mind me saying that. All-in with a set of Nines against a set of Jacks, a fourth Nine on the River resulted in a scream from the unfortunate victim, a flurry of media peeps flooding the table, and a cheeky, mischievous grin plastered across Trevor's face as he raked in the circa 40k pot. Hard not smile after a River like that, although the guy with the Knaves didn't find it funny, not sure why.

[snoopy1239]

Andrew Teng is playing with the zest and gusto of a child on Christmas morning, his latest conquest being a nice pot off previous winner Steve Paul-Ambrose, Teng's 8,600 bet on the River of a board with eventually being paid-off by the PokerStars pro.

I think Andrew might be one to watch out for. He was the highest placing Brit at the start of the day, and he seemed totally unfazed by it. Calm and collected and about as cool as a Fonz in a freezer.

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Andrew Teng is playing with the zest and gusto of a child on Christmas morning, his latest conquest being a nice pot off previous winner Steve Paul-Ambrose, Teng's 8,600 bet on the River of a board with eventually being paid-off by the PokerStars pro.

I think Andrew might be one to watch out for. He was the highest placing Brit at the start of the day, and he seemed totally unfazed by it. Calm and collected and about as cool as a Fonz in a freezer.

[NoflopsHomer]

Peter Gould is OUT, constant pushing started to irritate his opponents, and when he came over to the top of a raise again, this time one player's patience snapped and he called with Fours only to find that this time Gould had Aces. Four on the river, and Peter is off to try and buy-in for the Battleships event.

Stuart Taylor, "I sucked out again, re-raised a guy all-in with T-2, he called with A-K and I hit a deuce."

Andy Lowe is OUT, 6-6 vs A-J while Dave Colclough looks to have departed his table also.

[NoflopsHomer]

Magnus Tollefsen, we are told is OUT, though we have no details. Håkon Bentsen is doing very well though, he has over 120k just re-raising a hijack raise of 3.5k to 10.5k from the button.

Andrew Teng has just lost a huge pot, raising to 3,025 preflop with J-2, betting 4.5k on the Q-6-2 flop and being check/called. The Jack on the turn improved his hand healthily as he bet 8.5k and was again check/called. The river, a seemingly blank 4 was checked for a third time by his opponent, and this time Andrew bet 18.5k and was once again called. His opponent rivering a set of 4's.

Passing Michael Martin's stack, he gave me a roll of the eyes, it appears he's taken a couple of huge hits today and is stuck nursing a 20k stack now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Payouts:

1    $2,000,000
2    $1,094,976
3    $800,000
4    $600,000
5    $450,000
6    $300,000
7    $200,000
8    $150,000
9    $120,000
10    $104,000
11    $96,000
12    $88,000
13    $80,000
14    $72,000
15    $64,000
16    $56,000
17    $48,000
18    $48,000
19    $48,000
20    $48,000
21    $48,000
22    $48,000
23    $48,000
24    $48,000
25    $40,000
26    $40,000
27    $40,000
28    $40,000
29    $40,000
30    $40,000
31    $40,000
32    $40,000
33    $32,000
34    $32,000
35    $32,000
36    $32,000
37    $32,000
38    $32,000
39    $32,000
40    $32,000
41    $24,000
42    $24,000
43    $24,000
44    $24,000
45    $24,000
46    $24,000
47    $24,000
48    $24,000
49    $24,000
50    $24,000
51    $16,000
52    $16,000
53    $16,000
54    $16,000
55    $16,000
56    $16,000
57    $16,000
58    $16,000
59    $16,000
60    $16,000
61    $16,000
62    $16,000
63    $16,000
64    $16,000
65    $16,000
66    $16,000
67    $16,000
68    $16,000
69    $16,000
70    $16,000
71    $16,000
72    $16,000
73    $16,000
74    $16,000
75    $16,000
76    $16,000
77    $16,000
78    $16,000
79    $16,000
80    $16,000
81    $16,000
82    $16,000
83    $16,000
84    $16,000
85    $16,000
86    $16,000
87    $16,000
88    $16,000
89    $16,000
90    $16,000
91    $16,000
92    $16,000
93    $16,000
94    $16,000
95    $16,000
96    $16,000
97    $16,000
98    $16,000
99    $16,000
100    $16,000
101    $16,000
102    $16,000
103    $16,000
104    $16,000
105    $16,000
106    $16,000
107    $16,000
108    $16,000
109    $16,000
110    $16,000
111    $16,000
112    $16,000
113    $16,000
114    $16,000
115    $16,000
116    $16,000
117    $16,000
118    $16,000
119    $16,000
120    $16,000

[NoflopsHomer]

And Huuuuuuuuuuuuumbeeeeeeeeerrrrrrtoooooooo is OUT. K-To no good against David Pham's pocket sixes. Perhaps now he really will eat that credit card.

[snoopy1239]

There aren't too many people in the poker world as hip and trendy as me, but Dutch stud Noah Boeken certainly comes a close second. He looks slightly startled in this particular shot, but it's his opponent who ought to be looking at the felt with a bemused look of befuddlement, Noah's all-in re-raise with Q-T outdrawing Yankieboy's Pocket Sevens on an A-T-9-K-3 board. Looks like the former Magic: The Gathering geek has jumped up to 60-70k.

Although he took a dent with K-3 versus 9-9 on a K-3-9-Q-7 board, French madman Eric Koskas is still on a healthy 103,000.

[snoopy1239]

Barry Greenstein -- 53,500
Nate Melvin -- 60,100
Mats Iremark -- 61,200
Johan Berquist -- 250,000
Noah Boeken -- 38,700
Tom McEvoy -- 63,000
Julio Marines -- 88,900
Hevad Khan -- 84,100
Anthony Cousineau -- 89,000
Eric Koskas -- 103,000
Stevie Devlin -- 19,200
Brian Lindsay -- 191,700
Tore Lagerborg -- 102,400
David Pham -- 99,000
Jonathan Screeney -- 35,700
Samuel Oberlin -- 63,100
Isabelle Mercier -- 18,600
Victor Ramdin -- 79,800

[snoopy1239]

We haven't used this picture for a while...



but this really was a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge pot.

Raising it up pre-flop to 8k, Johan Berquist was swiftly re-raised to 24k by Julio Marines two seats down. I didn't catch the action on the Flop, but on the Turn, Johan bet out 26k and Julio, rather more reluctant than before, made the call. A River, and Johan bet out for the second consecutive street, this time making it 30k to play. Although he almost folded, Julio couldn't seem to release his , which was painfully counterfeited by Johan's .

Johan now up to a spine-tingling 270k., Julio down to 89k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Michael Martin appears to be OUT.

Nicolas Levi has dropped to 50k after raising to 3k preflop with suited connectors (I think 8-6) and getting one caller from the blinds.



The blind led out for 5k and Nic didn't give him credit for an ace and decided to flat-call and look to take away the pot later. The turn was a raggy black deuce and now the blind checked and Nic bet 10k and was called. The river was the , a scary card but the big blind checked so the 'Hatpimp' set him in but was quickly called by an interestingly played . After this, Levi then had Kings cracked by a rivered flush knocking him down to 30k, but has rebuilt back up to 50k.

Another Nick, Gibson this time has also taken a knock and has 45k. "I had an accident, I put him on a hand and I was waaaaaaaay off."

Steve Jelinek's been railing his better half, Irena Liepina, she had dropped to about 60k earlier but now she's on over 100k and looking comfortable. Also recovering is Andrew Teng, he looks to be back above the 100k mark also.

[snoopy1239]

Thierry Van Den Berg -- 49,800
Andrew Teng -- 77,500
Bertrand Grospellier -- 164,600
Asa Smith -- 155,000
Nick Gibson -- 60,300
Stuart Taylor -- 143,200
Chris Moneymaker -- 106,900
Nicolas Levi -- 41,200
Ted Lawson -- 55,400
Marc Naalden -- 125,200
Thor Hansen -- 19,500
Steve Paul-Ambrose -- 56,600
Irena Liepina -- 43,500
Daniel Negreanu -- 61,800
Johnny Lodden -- 42,800
Aurangzeb Sheikh -- 23,000
Clayton Newman -- 14,700
Rhett Butler -- 35,400

[NoflopsHomer]

Andrew Teng bets 11,600 on the river of a board. Because it was the last hand before the break, William Thorson takes an age before eventually passing after a good five minutes.

[snoopy1239]

Some more updates on the poker enigma Håkon Bentsen would also be nice. Perhaps try to get a few words out of him, some interesting hands, how he likes his table, etc.?

Hakon is still in with a more than respectable 115,000. He started he day with circa 70,000 and has built his way up by winning several small pots and avoiding the big showdown. The one showdown he did stumble upon was a Nines versus Aces encounter, Hakon finding some good fortune when a Nine hit the board. He was the bigger stack at the time, so the loss wouldn't have eliminated him from the tournament.

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Johan Berquist, who finished 8th in the 2006 Scandinavian EPT, has extended his chip lead to 300,000.