Re: Pokerstars.com Bahamas EPT: Day 4 - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Day 4 of the PokerStars.com Caribbean Adventure Tour will commence at 12pm.

Christian Harder   1   1    623,000
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier   1   2    729,000
Justin Phillips   1   3    229,000
William Thorson   1   4    874,000
Hafiz Khan   1   5    223,000
Garrett Adelstein   1   6    733,000
Gregory Byard   1   7    330,000
Bryan Colin   1   8    643,000
Jared Mahoney   2   1    194,000
Glen Chorny   2   2    977,000
James D'Ambrosio   2   3    723,000
Mikko Pirinen   2   4    355,000
Evan Tindell   2   5    524,000
Jon Dull   2   6    313,000
Eric Lynch   2   7    660,000
Thierry Van Den Berg   2   8    371,000
Kris Kuykendall   3   1    1,302,000
Marius Olsvik   3   2    910,000
David Pham   3   3    2,003,000
Lance Gettler   3   4    427,000
Kristoffer Edberg   3   5    527,000
Eric Van Den Burg   3   6    531,000
Rhett Buttler   3   7    494,000
Jacques Zaicik   3   8    524,000
Victor Ramdin   4   1    206,000
Paul Holub   4   2    277,000
Benjamin Reed   4   3    619,000
Allisen Connor   4   4    692,000
Jesse Chinni   4   5    564,000
Pierre Neuville   4   6    535,000
Robert Lederer   4   7    229,000
Craig Hopkins   4   8    656,000
Richard Fohrenbach   5   1    239,000
Magnus Karlsson   5   2    202,000
Christopher Klodnicki   5   3    901,000
Joseph Elpayaa   5   4    598,000
Michael Cooper   5   5    426,000
Emil Timberg   5   6    959,000
John Zioulas   5   7    387,000
Elton Tsang   5   8    231,000

[NoflopsHomer]

So here we are on the penultimate day of the PCA EPT Bahamas. Incidentally, I don't think this has been mentioned yet, but this tournament has been, in my opinion, superbly run. When Snoops and I first arrived, we noticed the similarities between the Atlantis and the Rio, and we're having flashbacks of the incredibly difficult WSOP. But all these fears have been allayed, I don't think I've heard a single complaint from the players about anything, a remarkable feat considering the 1000+  players.

It makes you wonder what the WSOP would be like if Pokerstars were in charge...

[Doobs]

GO THE BIG APPLE

[evani]

here we go!! COME ON HOP!

[Arnold_D]

Come on The Apple!! bring home the loot.

If he wins this, he could actually buy chesterfield!!

Not the football club but the whole town!!

and still have half a million change....

[snoopy1239]

Greetings, peeps. Before we kick off here, I'd like to offer my good luck wishes to The Apple Craig Hopkins. He's seems like a highly amicable chap, and it looks like he's got game too, increasing his chipcount by 50k each time I passed by, so it would be great if he made that illustrious final table.

Whilst we've been awaiting the starting whistle here, which I believe has now sounded, I've been entangled in interview heaven with the quite wonderful Bill Chen. If you haven't spoken to this guy, then you're missing out on a real treat because he is one of the friendliest, fun-loving guys around and really loves life and playing poker. He's also a cracking ambassador for PokerStars and very much worthy of his current sponsorship.

During our interview, we discussed a range of issues, but there the one subject that got Bill excited was poker and maths, and we spent quite a long period of time discussing how mathematics can be applied to poker and the balance between numerical approach and instinctive feel. One of the first books Bill read was Mike Caro's Book of Tells, but as a mathematical based player, he claimed that players perhaps relied too much on physical tells when they aren't quite as reliable as people think.

If you want to hear more from Bill, then be sure to keep an eye on the blonde poker Main Site over the upcoming weeks.

[snoopy1239]

We can't see the feature table with any great ease, so if you spot anything interesting happening on the EPT Live feed, then please feel free to highlight it here.

Meanwhile, we've had one double and one exit here. Details on there way....

[evani]

bryan colins just been knocked out

[Rhu]

Nothing particularly interesting on the feature table. Everyone taking their time with their decisions.

As I type Brian Colin goes out with Q 2 against Q 8.

[snoopy1239]

The first player to experience the bitter taste of dust today is American Jared Mahoney. All-in with against Evan Tindell's , his life in the tournament was looking rather peachy until the dealer threw out a shoulder-dropping Flop. A on the Turn meant that Mahoney was eagerly searching for one of three Queens for a bigger full house. However, it didn't arrive and the harmless River meant that Mohoney was gone, only to be comforted, if that was possible, by the seemingly genuine apologies of his humble opponent.

[snoopy1239]

Thanks, guys. That's a bit of a surprise to us as he started the day with a fair amount of chips. I can only assume that he double up an opponent early doors.

[Rhu]

Colin doubled up Hafiz Khan.

Colin raised with J J. Khan went over the top all in with A K leaving Colin with a decision he gave a lot of thought to.

The king hit the river leaving Colin with about 96K and then ultimately out.

[NoflopsHomer]

Early double up for Victor Ramdin, he was in the big blind, calling Craig Hopkins small blind raise. The board came out and all the chips quickly ended up in the middle.

Victor:

Craig:

A turn and a river was met with a clap from the Pokerstars player as  he increased his stack to around 400k. Hopkins still has about 500k left though.



Chip leader David Pham has started off very quickly, he raised it up to 37k, Kristoffer Edberg re-raised to 105k and Pham moved in, the Scandinavian releasing his .



Magnus Karlsson raises to 32k from the hijack over on table 5, Joseph Elpayaa asks for a count before shoving in a big stack of red chips re-raising to 115k. A deep sigh and another Scandie is on the backfoot.



Can you guess which of the three brass monkeys' Glen Chorny is?

[snoopy1239]

Back to the outer tables momentarily, the least active one thus far is Table Pham, The dragon perhaps using his deep stack to control the table. One player who seems to be mixing it up though is Marius Olsvik, first folding to Kris Kuykendall's 55k bet on an 8d-8s-Kc Flop after calling a 35k pre-flop bet before button raising to 32k, being called by Pham and Gessler in the blinds and taking it down by betting the 5c-Qd-6s board.

[snoopy1239]

Breaking News

'The Apple' Craig Hopkins is now on circa 1 million in chips. 

Details to come courtesy of Mr Floppy...