Pokerstars.com Bahamas EPT: Day 3 - At A Glance

[snoopy1239]

Day 3 of the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure will commence at 12pm.

This is the At A Glance thread and will contain just the bare essentials.

For a fuller experience and the opportunity to interact with the update team, please see the Interactive thread by clicking the link below:

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30291.new#new


Eric Lynch   United States   13   4   526,900
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier   France   14   8   435,000
Peter Jetten   Canada   12   3   401,800
Jonathan Friedberg   United States   17   8   372,700
Julian Thew   United Kingdom   15   9   372,500
Bryan Colin   United States   18   7   354,200
Frederik Agersnap   Denmark   12   5   341,000
Tyler Dickinson   United States   14   6   341,000
Cero Zuccarello   United States   14   5   326,700
Jared Mahoney   United States   11   9   326,300
William Thorson   Sweden   12   1   311,000
Duy Le   United States   7   3   305,600
David Pham   United States   14   3   291,200
Hafiz Khan   United States   5   7   290,900
Jeremy Harkin   United States   8   5   289,100
Hunter Frey   United States   4   8   264,000
Hans-Ari Varsi   Norway   16   1   261,900
Robert Lederer   United States   10   8   261,200
Håkon Bentsen   Norway   17   6   259,800
Evan Tindell   United States   9   1   257,400
José Cuenca   Spain   11   6   244,200
Johan Bergqvist   Sweden   2   6   242,700
Allisen Connor   Canada   5   6   240,800
Emil Timberg   Sweden   9   9   238,500
Adam Green   United States   10   5   236,600
Hevad Khan   United States   15   2   230,800
Eric Van Den Burg   Netherlands   7   5   228,200
Daniel Grolemund   United States   2   7   221,700
Hans Winzeler   United States   10   2   215,000
Christian Taepper   Germany   17   9   212,300
John Zioulas   Canada   4   6   211,700
Ross Romash   United States   11   4   208,000
Jesse Chinni   United States   4   1   204,100
Benjamin Reed   United States   3   6   203,900
Adam Bragar   United States   15   7   201,600
Asa Smith   United Kingdom   17   5   200,400
Mike Gorodinsky   United States   8   2   197,000
Gregory Byard   United States   13   2   195,600
Stephan Kjerstad   Norway   10   6   191,200
Daniel Shiff   United States   6   3   190,600
Christian Harder   United States   6   1   187,700
Mikko Pirinen   Finland   4   4   184,000
Marius Olsvik   Norway   8   6   178,500
Kevin McColgan   United States   7   9   168,900
John Bird   United States   8   8   167,700
Matt Zoorob   United States   5   5   167,700
Richard Furay   United States   5   3   167,500
Andre Akkari   Brazil   1   9   167,100
Paul Holub   United States   7   7   167,000
Brian Lindsay   United States   18   8   166,800
Markus Ross   Germany   6   6   166,000
Clayton Maguire   United States   17   4   161,800
Joseph Elpayaa   United States   13   9   160,500
Sean Gardiner   United States   3   5   158,300
Justin Wright   United States   16   8   157,000
Thierry Van Den Berg   Netherlands   4   7   156,600
John Buchanan   United States   13   1   154,200
Andrew Teng   United Kingdom   6   2   152,300
Victor Ramdin   United States   5   1   149,600
Samuel Chartier   Canada   15   5   149,300
Michael Meredith   United States   1   5   149,200
Pierre Neuville   Belgium   16   2   148,900
Jacob Petersen   United States   17   3   148,300
Christopher Klodnicki   United States   16   6   147,600
Jameson Painter   United States   14   9   146,400
Ryan D'Angelo   United States   18   4   144,700
Garrett Adelstein   United States   8   9   143,100
Rory Brennan   Ireland   13   8   143,100
Chris Crawford   United States   1   3   141,300
Duncan Bell   Canada   4   9   140,000
Raúl Lleida   Spain   5   4   138,400
Joshua Ewing   United States   10   4   133,600
Diego Pérez   Spain   1   1   130,800
James McCrink   United States   11   7   122,800
Jacob Walsh   United States   7   6   122,100
Stuart Taylor   Netherlands   16   7   121,100
Eric Liu   United States   14   4   119,200
Jon Dull   United States   6   8   119,100
Peter Busch   United States   1   6   118,600
Hugo Spangenberg   Argentina   15   3   115,200
Johan Til   Netherlands   11   8   115,200
Barry Greenstein   United States   11   1   115,000
Mark Venegoni   United States   13   7   114,300
Glen Chorny   Canada   16   4   114,000
Justin Phillips   United States   6   4   113,400
John Myung   United States   4   2   110,200
Irina Liepina   Latvia   3   8   106,300
James Ferguson   United States   18   6   105,900
Ted Lawson   United States   1   7   105,000
Davide Sciabbarrasi   Italy   3   2   104,300
Dmitriy Kirin   United States   2   4   103,600
Thomas Ilg   Germany   12   4   103,300
Chris Pearsall   United States   12   6   102,800
Marcel Kleczka   Germany   8   3   100,800
Gasperino Loiacono   Venezuela   18   3   100,600
Evan Roberts   United States   7   1   100,100
David Mcnew   United States   16   9   96,400
Rosamelia Ferreia   Brazil   3   1   95,800
Elton Tsang   Hong Kong   8   1   95,300
Kristoffer Edberg   Sweden   10   9   93,500
Alex Michaels   United States   14   1   92,900
David Lacoste   France   1   8   89,600
Anthony Cousineau   United States   14   7   88,000
Louis Cohen   United States   17   2   87,400
Zack Stewart   United States   2   9   86,800
Kai Herold   Germany   4   3   85,800
Michael Cooper   United States   18   2   85,500
Jeffrey Neadom   United States   6   9   85,000
James D'Ambrosio   United States   5   9   84,800
Guy Sitbon   France   8   7   83,200
Kris Kuykendall   Norway   11   3   83,000
Mauro Stivoli   Italy   10   3   83,000
Magnus Karlsson   Sweden   7   8   81,500
James Pechac   United States   2   2   80,600
Patrick Blye   Canada   9   7   79,000
Gerald Lauderman   United States   2   1   78,600
Markus Ritt   Germany   14   2   78,100
Nicolas Levi   France   10   7   75,700
Patrick Kelly   United States   9   8   74,600
Daniel Stern   Canada   12   2   74,400
Eric Koskas   France   13   3   71,900
Kevin Bryniczka   United States   13   6   67,900
Steve Gross   United States   8   4   67,700
William Pilossoph   United States   18   1   67,300
Jacques Zaicik   France   2   5   67,200
Michael Melin   Sweden   9   6   64,000
Eugenio Carmoneto   Brazil   15   1   63,400
Guy Tomaselli   France   9   2   61,300
Regent Lacroix   Canada   17   7   58,200
Shamil Danilov   United States   3   4   57,600
Per Ravn   Denmark   1   4   57,100
Rhett Buttler   United States   6   7   57,000
Jean Phillippe Rohr   France   9   3   53,500
Bill Ezzo   United States   15   8   49,700
Davidi Kitai   Belgium   3   9   48,400
Richard Fohrenbach   United States   18   9   48,100
Sander Braaksma   Netherlands   11   2   47,500
Tony Burton   United States   2   3   47,100
James Lampropoulos   United States   10   1   46,100
Frank Nielsen   Denmark   4   5   43,400
Brett Levitzke   United States   1   2   43,300
Jonathon Mercer   Canada   11   5   42,300
Craig Hopkins   United Kingdom   15   4   41,700
Benjamin Yogel   United States   7   2   40,600
Dennis Petronack   United States   3   7   39,100
Ziad Alameddine   United States   5   2   36,600
Peter Dumdeang   United States   9   4   35,400
Kevin Schaffel   United States   2   8   35,200
Lance Gettler   United States   18   5   31,600
Jeffrey Neuman   United States   12   8   28,500
John Dibella   United States   16   3   27,300
Jens Eriksson   United Kingdom   12   9   23,800
Lee Markholt   United States   16   5   19,360

[NoflopsHomer]

If Day 1's story was all about the rapid rise and equally quick fall of the Monte Carlo Winner Gavin Griffin, yesterday, at least from our perspective, was Thewy's jump into the top five having started the day with just 16k. Early on, it was all grinding but followed by a late explosion to the top. Elsewhere, the online player 'Rizen' is the chip leader, and already some in the media have him nailed on for a final table appearance already.

Today, we'll be trying to get down to 36 players which will be a bit of dance as we get around the bubble. Get ready for it to be slow, slow, quick, slow as we make it into the money.

Also happening today is the $2k Battleships Event, which starts at 3pm today. It'll be able to be viewed on the Pokerstars site, with 32 people playng today and another 32 tomorrow. Dan Carter is in as 'DanistheKing'. We'll have a full list for todays players later, and if anyone wants to post updates about it, feel free to put them on here. First prize in that competition looks to be $44,800, the final being at 9pm (2am UK) tomorrow night.

[snoopy1239]

I'm not personally catching a host of exits, but I'm am spotting the odd double up followed by an elated grin. The latest player to wear such a joyous facial gesture was Matt Zoorob, whose A-J was enough to fend off T-T when an Ace hit the Flop.

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Duy Li, who had such a cracking day yesterday, isn't fairing quite so well during these early stages, last seen facing an all-in from young Jacob Walsh on a 4d-6h-Js Flop. "Have you got Queens?" asks Duy Li, perhaps hoping that Jacob would suddenly lose sight of the point of poker and simply reveal the identity of his hand. "Do I need Queens?" replies Jacob calmly. After a subsequent umming and aahing, Duy Li did indeed make the fold, and was shown 8d-8s as a reward. Whether he was ahead or not, I'm still not sure, Nines could certainly have been feasible.

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Another big stacker dribbling away a few chips is Johan Berquist. He raised from under the gun to 10k, bet a further 14k on the 3d-9h-4h Flop, but reluctantly folded when Kevin Schaffel (pictured below) made it 36k to take down the pot.

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What are they doing?! We've only got 4 Brits remaining in this ruddy event, and they're creating a civil war! With Julian Thew raising it up to 12k pre-flop, Craig Hopkins peeled (ahem) peeled back his cards before making it a total of 36k to play. Not one to back down from a fight, Julian duly called and the two fellow countrymen saw a 5h-9c-3d Flop. Pensive and prudent in his approach, Craig rested his chin on his hand, furrowed his eyebrows and adamantly planted his remaining column onto the felt. Julian swiftly folded and The Apple survived a core hand.

[NoflopsHomer]

As the players awaited the starting whistle like an uber-excited FA Cup Final crowd, I also caught sight of Craig Hopkins, currently sharing a table with Julian Thew but enjoying a bit of banter with the rest of the table. Again, he doesn't seem too nervous given what is up for grabs.

So come on then, why is he called the Apple?

Actually, you can credit Floppy for that after his picture on yesterdays thread. Maybe it will stick

Afraid 'The Apple' just got pipped in a pot, raising it it up but then passing to a bet from Rory Brennan who scooped up all those golden delicious chips on a board.


The 'Jon Raab' system is in use today. For those who don't know, all the players are given cards they have to carry around with them, which means they are easy to identify for chip counts for the press, but also means we can fully track just about everyone in the tournament. For example, I can tell you Peter Dumdeang was knocked out by Michael Melin with Queens vs Aces, the latter holding. Or that Gerald Lauderman's K-Q was knocked out by Tony Burton K-K on a King high board.

Over on table 16, Stuart Taylor was pointing out a huge pot involving Hans-Ari Varsi (seat 1), Glen Chorny (seat 4 - grey hat) and Justin Wright (seat 8 - green hat).

The board reed , Hans-Ari had bet 32k on the flop and both others had called. On the turn, the Norwegian checked, and Glen moved in for his remaining 70k or so, into the 120k+ pot. Justin Wright went deep into the tank before the clock was called on him. He anxiously looked at the tournament clock, seeing how many players were left before making the call for the majority of his chips. Hans-Ari quickly passed his cards.

Glen:

Justin:

"Please don't do it to me," pleaded Glen...He was rewarded when the river was the ultimate blank card, the . Justin Wright, crippled by this hand, exited soon after.

[NoflopsHomer]

Barry Greenstein is OUT.

All-in with on a , you'd think he was in good shape, except that fellow Stars Pro Hevad Khan was holding the leaving Barry drawing slim. Two blanks later and he was left to sign a copy of his book for Hevad.

[snoopy1239]

Christian Harder currently has a face like a smacked bottom after being outdrawn by British player Andrew Teng. I didn't quite see the pre-flop action, but can probably assume that Harder raised it up from the hijack position, Teng pushed all-in from the cut-off and Harder called.

On their backs, and with Teng's in need of a little assistance against Harder's , the board was a double-edged one, the unrelenting Flop giving Teng the second nut flush, but Harder the potential re-draw with the As.

"He still has so many ways to beat me," observes Teng. However, neither of them came as the Turn and River bricked out, leaving Harder to reluctantly pay out the additional 32k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Finally, Thewy has just lost a decent pot and is down to 270k. He fired 22k on a flop against two players, getting one to fold, the second, Evan Tindell called and then called another 40k on the turn. Julian checked to him on the river where Evan fired out 100k. Julian eventually passed, telling me after, "It's too early for hero calls."

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With just a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle's handful of British players remaining in this event, we can't really afford to lose too many players, which is why it saddens me to report that online whiz Andrew Teng has been eliminated. I had to prise the information from former neighbour Christain Harder, but if my source is correct, Teng sang his swan song with K-Q, pushing over the top of an initial raiser but being called by A-Q. No improvement, and he has no choice but to spend the rest of the week in the Bahamas. It's a hard life.

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Christian Hardy's stack continues to head south, he's now on 65k after doubling up Rhett Butler. With Hardy raising under the gun with , all the chips found their way in after Rhett Butler raised from latish position with . Although I was begging for a cheeky to hit so I could utilise my long awaited 'Gone With The Wind' gag, the board severely let me down and allowed that Mr Butler to fight another day.

[NoflopsHomer]

Nicolas Levi is OUT. K-Q into A-K.

Kris Kuykendall has just trebled up in one hand, He shoved utg for 80k, the small blind called, before Jon Friedberg pushed from the bigblind shutting out the other player. Kuykendall's Jacks were in poor shape against Kings, until he spiked a Jack on the river.

Stuart Taylor has around 110k, after little rush of cards but no customers he's been quiet.

John Zioulas bets 40k on a flop, Tyler Dickinson check/calls, before both check the turn. On the river, Dickinson bets 60k and Zioulas adds another 60k which Dickinson calls.

What was Zioulas' hand?

Just the ...



Oh and it's bubbletime!!!

[NoflopsHomer]

And the bubble has burst, it's Frederik Agersnap deciding to push on a K-7-4 board with (backdoor flush draw) except he ran into Peter Jetten's K-Q.

Err..ok.

[snoopy1239]

Consistent casher Lee Markholt is OUT. He ran into Duy Li's and failed to improve on a board.

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Remember that website Hot or Not in which you submitted photos of your worst enemy to humiliate them a prove in public how hideous they are? Well, if it was based on who was hot in poker at the moment, then these cool dudes would be top of the pile. Hey, this is the Magnificent Seven!

Peter Jetten -- 1,010,000
Bryan Collin -- 640,000
Evan Tindell -- 567,000
Duy Li -- 550,000
Duncan Bell -- 498,000
John Phan -- 496,000
Allisen Connor -- 395,000

[NoflopsHomer]

Whilst on a break I got the chip counts of all these requested players.

Asa Smith -- 230k
Håkon Berntsen -- 145k
Craig Hopkins -- 187k
Cero Zucarello -- 128k
Rory Brennan -- 180k

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip counts from the end of the last level. (i.e about 30 minutes old)

Peter Jetten   1025500
Duy Le   1000000
Emil Timberg   610000
Evan Tindell   585000
Bryan Colin   550000
John Zioulas   475000
Eric Lynch   428000
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier   420000
Garrett Adelstein   410000
Christian Taepper   405000
David Pham   368000
José Cuenca   353000
Johan Bergqvist   350000
Hafiz Khan   350000
Hevad Khan   348000
Richard Furay   340000
Jon Dull   333000
Glen Chorny   321000
Jared Mahoney   319000
Diego Pérez   309000
Marius Olsvik   306000
Paul Holub   305000
Mikko Pirinen   300000
Robert Lederer   288000
Jesse Chinni   280000
Kristoffer Edberg   280000
Mauro Stivoli   275000
Justin Phillips   270000
Allisen Connor   250000
Victor Ramdin   250000
Benjamin Reed   248000
Markus Ross   247000
William Thorson   243000
Christian Harder   240000
Adam Green   232000
Asa Smith   232000
Duncan Bell   232000
Eric Liu   230000
Kevin Schaffel   215000
Jameson Painter   211000
Gregory Byard   210000
Alex Michaels   210000
Christopher Klodnicki   205000
Hans-Ari Varsi   200000
Clayton Maguire   200000
Rory Brennan   200000
Per Ravn   196000
Daniel Grolemund   191000
Michael Cooper   190000
Craig Hopkins   187000
James McCrink   185000
Kris Kuykendall   181000
Eugenio Carmoneto   180000
Eric Van Den Burg   180000
Jacques Zaicik   179000
Marcel Kleczka   174000
Lance Gettler   172000
John Bird   167000
Kevin McColgan   164000
James Pechac   160000
Johan Til   155000
Håkon Bentsen   145000
Rosamelia Ferreia   144000
James D'Ambrosio   140000
David Lacoste   140000
Mike Gorodinsky   139000
Jonathan Friedberg   138000
Hans Winzeler   134000
Peter Busch   134000
Hunter Frey   130000
Cero Zuccarello   127000
Julian Thew   126000
Thierry Van Den Berg   119000
Magnus Karlsson   118000
Brian Lindsay   118000
Joseph Elpayaa   117000
Sean Gardiner   117000
James Ferguson   116000
Chris Crawford   115500
Samuel Chartier   115000
Rhett Buttler   115000
Ross Romash   114000
Pierre Neuville   113000
David Mcnew   110000
Joshua Ewing   110000
Richard Fohrenbach   109000
William Pilossoph   105000
Elton Tsang   96000
Gerald Lauderman   95000
Andre Akkari   92000
Dennis Petronack   90000
Chris Pearsall   85000
Irina Liepina   85000
Davide Sciabbarrasi   84000
Hugo Spangenberg   81000
Evan Roberts   79000
Louis Cohen   78000
Michael Melin   73000
Stuart Taylor   73000
Jeffrey Neuman   63000
Daniel Shiff   60000
Tyler Dickinson   55000
Guy Tomaselli   49000
Ted Lawson   44000
John Dibella   36000
Brett Levitzke   4000

[NoflopsHomer]

Irina Liepina is OUT. Queens vs Kings.

Jon Friedberg has doubled up with against the of Ross Romash

The action packed board was...



Glen Chorny -- 570k

Stuart 'Zpaceman' Taylor waves me over and says, "I've done it again, big suckout. Pushed with A-6 and called by A-Q. Flopped a six and I'm up to 150k."

Someone who didn't suckout though was Julian Thew, he'd lost a couple of decent sized pots leaving him with about 120k. Looking at the flattish structure of the payout, he'd said he was just going to 'give it some welly' and ended up pushing with A-T against Elky's Tens and failed to improve.

[snoopy1239]

Johan Til is now pushing up the poker daisies. I didn't see what his hand was, but noticed that he ran into the Pocket Cowboys of Glen Chordy.

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Also juggling up the choice of bar, beach or cash game is David Benyamine lookalike James Pechac. His Jacks stumbled on those darn Kings a game and a helpless Q-9-7-8-4 board.

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Irish-soon-to-be-adopted-Englishman Rory Brennan has shot up to 240k after snipering down an opponent with Queens versus A-Q.

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All-in with Sixes, Brazil's Eugenio Carmoneto (those dudes can make any name sound exotic!) found himself up against the Kings of John Bird, but with the dealer popping out a testicle-crunching 4-6-T-T-3 board it was the latter who'd be down to the felt, a mere 10k red chip being returning to the American's dejected paws. Oh well, I'm sure Seat 10's Garrett Adelstein consolidated the agony by adding, "I folded a Six."

And one hand later it was all-in, Bird making his move from the button after under-the-gun had made a standard pre-flop raise. After everyone else had folded, under the gun announced, "I think you're going to be happy", subsequently revealing a rather mischievous, blind-stealing .

"Oh no, I'm dominated," cried Bird as he flipped over a lack-lustre .

No Seven on the Flop, but after the and River, Bird had hit a miracle straight! Shame he lost to a bigger one.

[NoflopsHomer]

Keep the updates coming for the rising star Håkon Bentsen. Some information about who his tablemates are would be nice too.

Afraid we think he's out. Can't spot him at any tables and checking in with the Norwegian bloggers and they don't know what happened to him either. With the average at 270k and him coming back with around 145k at the break, he's probably decided to take a shot for the real money now that he had $16k guaranteed. Sorry folks.

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According to champion railer Andy Lowe, Stuart Taylor has departed after "running into Aces". Unfortunately for the patriots, this means there are just two  flag fliers remaning - Asa Smith and Craig Hopkins.

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Double up for Hafiz Khan courtesy of the enigmatic John Dibella, the latter's A-J no match for Khan's Pocket Kings, his demands of a cheeky straight after a 5-3-2 Flop falling on stony Poker God ground.