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

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Meanwhile, on Berquist's table, the little guys are still hanging in there, Adrian Gaville finding himself all-in with A-T versus K-Q. A vomit-inducing King hit the 2-K-J Flop, but after the 5 Turn, a Queen arrived on the River to keep Gaville alive. I had to double check the board at one point, because Gaville was about as cool as you can get, his facial expression not budging an inch. No whooping and hollering from this guy. In fact, if you peeled a cucumber of its skin, popped it in the fridge and shipped it off to the North Pole, it still wouldn't be as cool as Gaville was during this hand.

A couple of seats down, Tom McEvoy is keeping his head low with 48,200.

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Julian Thew has doubled up with Aces against after the board bricked out. "Only the second time I've seen a flop all day..."

The yo-yo grinder is now up to 80k.

Going even better than this is Stuart Taylor, in the 600/1200 level he raised to 3,500 from the small blind with Q-T. The flop came a not unhelpful Q-Q-T. Ok, now how to get paid off. He started with a flop check/call of 6,500. Then both checked the T turn. On the river he made a weakish 10k bet that managed to elicit a push from his opponent, which he called quicker than a Flushy posting a put-down on the PHA board.

Elky has lost a chunk with being in bad shape against on a board. Both hit their flushes but Elky loses around 40k of his stack.

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Dublin EPT victor Reuben Peters is up to 80,000 after eliminating his neighbour with 2-2 v 9-9, a nasty 2 on the River. His drowning opponent didn't take defeat well, his bang of the table enough to alert the Beagle ears.

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Duy Le is up to 300k after finding Aces against A-Q and hitting a rather clinical 2-6-A-J-3 board. It's hard at the top!

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Well, we had the magnificent Eight yesterday when I made a slight miscalculation, now we have the Famous Nine. It was nine, wasn't it, excluding Timmy the dog of course?

Duy Le -- 294,000
Johan Berquist -- 279,000
Jared Mahoney -- 255,500
Cero Zuccarello -- 243,000
Eric Lynch -- 240,000
Hunter Frey -- 230,000
Ryan Collett -- 222,000
Hans Winzeler -- 206,000
Asa Smith -- 204,000

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Chris Moneymaker is OUT, in hand where Nick Gibson said he 'imploded'.

Adam Green raised to 6,000 and Moneymaker made the call, the flop came K-Q-x with two hearts, Green bet 9k and Moneymaker made it 18k. Green called, and then led out again on the turn for 22k when a third heart appeared on the board. Moneymaker moved in for 55k total and was instantly called by Green's leaving Moneymaker's Jx drawing dead.

Another member of Pokerstars, Daniel Negreanu, isn't his usual chipper self, he's down to only 25k or so and the bloggers are circling awaiting a double-up or exit.

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Smashing news for Brit fans as Julian Thew, displaying a surprising level of patience today, has just doubled up off his next door neighbour pictured below. Raising it up pre-flop under-the-gun, Mateyboy received three calls, one of whom was Julian in the big blind. On the 8h-8d-3c Flop, everyone checked, before Mateyboy bet out 25k on the 3s Turn. After the other two players had ducked out of the way, Julian, as nonchalent as ever, calmly announced all-in and picked up his three remaining stacks. Clearly pained by his decision, Mateyboy juggled up the options in his mind before eventually making the call for what looked like circa 30k extra in chips. However, upon seeing Julian's commanding 8c-7h, Mateyboy folded quicker than Super Ted on Concorde, perhaps indicative of a middling pocket pair, or even A-K. Either way, Julian has surpassed the 100k mark and is finally gathering speed.

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The very hand prior to Julian Thew's timely double-up, PokerStars sponsored pro and former champion Steve Paul-Ambrose made what he may have believed to be a faux pas, his departing comment of "oh, I didn't realise you had so much" perhaps explaining why his 80k re-raise of Adam Brager's late position 8k raise was so chunky. But even so, Brager had a tough decision to make for a large pot, and one that he decided to take a stab at with Ahrt Qh. Paul-Ambrose, meanwhile, will have been relieved to see that his 7h 7d was coinflipping, but not so laid-back when the board came Ad Kd Ks 4h 9s. Paul-Ambrose quickly exited stage left leaving Brager to encapsulate his arms around a nice meatalicious pot.

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Duy Lee has just stubbed his toe in a major way. On a board, he raised a 30k bet by another 75k. His unfazed opponent moved all-in for a remaining 25k on top, and there was roughly 190k (!) in the pot but Duy folded. Could you fold no hand no draw there? (with roughly 200k back?)

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One face that disappeared earlier was that of Bill Edler in a horrible hand against Victor Ramdin. Victor raised, Bill re-raised and Victor felt Bill was re-stealing, so decided to go for the re-re-steal with 5-4. Edler was holding Kings ... It didn't matter when the flop came 6-7-8 though...

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Daniel Negreanu is OUT. He made his swan song with Q-Js, but ran into Aces. A 2-K-6-4-K board was of no use. I think he mumbled something about wishing it had happened a few hours ago instead.

Nick Gibson is no more (I don't mean his passed away, just that he's been eliminated), his parting words being, "Ace Jack versus Nines, glad to find a spot."

Julian Thew has somehow magicked his way to 270k. He was very blase about it when I made my inquiries, claiming that he hasn't encountered any major pots. He did confess to adding a few chips to his stack with Queens on a dangerous Flop, and also an A-T versus A-4 confrontation on an Ace high board.

Johan Berquist -- 290,000
Craig Hopkins -- 60,500
Eric Koskas -- 75,000
Hans Winzeler -- 258,000
Clay Maguire -- 106,000
Annand Ramdin -- 127,000
John Myung -- 84,000
Barry Greenstein -- 92,500
Rory Brennan -- 150,000
Anthony Cousineau -- 93,500
Thierry Van Den Berg -- 141,500
Ted Lawson -- 104,000
Nicolas Levi -- 139,500
Andre Akkari -- 170,000
Hakon Bentsen -- 245,000
David Pham -- 329,000
Cero Zuccarello -- 267,500
Marco Savoni -- 76,500
Bertrand Grospellier -- 167,000
Josh Arieh -- 135,000
Stuart Taylor -- 146,000
Julian Thew -- 270,000
Asa Smith -- 122,000
Eric Lynch -- 342,500
Brian Lindsay -- 186,500
Irena Liepina -- 108,500
William Thorsson -- 244,500
Hevad Khan -- 105,500
Neville Desai -- 53,000

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Håkon Bentsen must have downed a gallon of Red Bull during the last break because he's now shot up to a nose-bleed inducing 245k. His latest scalp was Ryan Collett, the Norwegian feeing obliged to call a 20,500 bet on a Flop with a paltry , but somehow finding himself ahead against Collett's . He may have been ahead, but Håkon would need the dexterity of 11 Phil Hellmuths to dodge these bullets, but like the nimble twinkle-toed panther that he is, dodge them he did as a and bricked out on the Turn and River to send the American packing.

[NoflopsHomer]

Here he is next to Hakor Bentsen.

I see that I don't have to rush my spanishlessions, since your Norweigian isn't quite there yet Chis
His name is Håkon, or if you don't want to copy/paste the å everytime, Haakon.

Thanks Kjetil, I'm still waiting for my Norwegian keyboard...

Eric Lynch plays live, too Snoops. He's a good man. 

Americans are also following Chistian Harder (Charder) a young online player.  Heard he's up there in chips. 

Eric Lynch has about 305k, but just had the chip lead snatched away from him...

By Jon Friedberg...Josh Arieh raised to 9k from early position and one player flat-called before Friedberg made it 50k. Arieh pushed and the other player folded. Friedberg made the call with his dominating Arieh's with the board bricking out making Friedberg the chip leader with 380k...

But then I'm typing that all up and then Benjo comes in declaring that Elky aka Betrand Grospieller has just knocked out another player with A-K vs Queens making him the new chip leader with 410k...

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Will Hill's going to be proud of this guy, because Julian Thew has eliminated his next door neighbour and is now on a mouth-watering 350,000. Mateyboy raised it up from early position, Julian re-raised, Mateyboy pushed all-in and Julian made the call, obviously hoping that he was up against overcards.

Mateyboy =

Julian =

Flop =

Turn =

River =

Was it ever in doubt?

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Hugo Spangenberg has just enjoyed a last level double up. He found Aces and survived an 8-2-8-J-6 rainbow board against Nines and Fives, the latter of the pairs belonging to Thierry Van Den Berg.

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I apologise for rattling off the hands with such little elaboration, but they've gone bananas during this last level, the latest victim being Dutchman Marc Naalden.

There was an initial raise, ElkY re-raised and Naalden pushed all-in for circa 80k. ElkY called with A-K, Naalden had Queens. King on the River.

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This isn't just the face of a man who's experienced a WSOP Main Event final table, but also one that's just got his fingers caught firmly in the cookie jar, yet survived to tell the tale.

With the Flop reading , Khan bet, Yankieboy raised and Khan pushed all-in. Yankieboy quickly called with to find that he was in terrific shape against Khan's , but a Turn followed by a River soon put a stop to that, a sneaky backdoor flush giving Khan a perhaps undeserving second lifeline.

"Gross," added an observer as the dealer pushed the chip towards Khan.

It must also be said that Khan didn't jump around as if suffering from an epileptic fit or mimic any kind of primate as a form of victory dance, instead remaining silent in his seat until the chips were pushed his way.

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I found Christian Harder, he had about 220k just before the end...



Eric Lynch regained the chip lead right at the end, calling an all-in on a board with Kings up against the drawing , the river was the and 'Rizen' is the first player over the 500k mark. Elky and Mark Friedberg are close behind, with Julian Thew also in the mix with 370k and William Thorson lurking on 311k.

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That is everything guys.

We'll actually be using Jon Raab's number-tagging system from the GUKPT, so fingers crossed, all names and chip counts from tomorrow will be there.

Tomorrow we are playing down to the final 36, (or at least that's the plan). Hopefully whoever you are supporting will be there.

Take care.