Pokerstars.com EPT Dortmund: Day 1a - Interactive

[kinboshi]

Is it me, or is this update thread the worst ever?

Get your fingers out and give us some chip counts now, or I want my money back and I'm going to stop posting on here forever.

Second worst I reckon. Not as bad as those ones from Brighton, they were awful. I'm surprised no one brought it up at the time.

No, these are definitely the worst ever. Even after coffee. 

I could dig up two corpses....

Cool it guys ...Cool it.

Genius. 

[tikay]

Much though I had hoped for a smooth 3pm start, it looks like all there is to take pictures of upstairs is this slightly sullen queue of poker players, which is not moving at all.  "It looks like there are only two people dealing with it at the end," said a still-cheerful Mazhar Nawab, looking into the distance.

That looks like a bit of a shambles. It really is time that Event Organisers took some care to start Tourneys on time, or nearly so. And this is in Germany, home of efficiency? It's just wrong that Players, who have lumped up a fortune to play this, are treated like this.

Oh, & I'm grumpy today.

[b4matt]

Much though I had hoped for a smooth 3pm start, it looks like all there is to take pictures of upstairs is this slightly sullen queue of poker players, which is not moving at all.  "It looks like there are only two people dealing with it at the end," said a still-cheerful Mazhar Nawab, looking into the distance.

That looks like a bit of a shambles. It really is time that Event Organisers took some care to start Tourneys on time, or nearly so. And this is in Germany, home of efficiency? It's just wrong that Players, who have lumped up a fortune to play this, are treated like this.

Oh, & I'm grumpy today.

I hope your next Post is special...be a shame if its a grumpy 1/4 century...

[danafish]

Chipcount for tikay please.

[luckyblind]

Can you keep an eye on a young Irish chap, Daniel Bolton, not sure what day he is playing.

[JungleCat03]

Myself and Jen have been busily beavering away typing up the full player list which we will bring to you shortly but for now, just a few salient details about the tournament.

The buy-in for the tournament is €7,700 + €300.

The structure is excellent as you would expect. Here it is in all its glory...
LEVEL     SMALL BLIND     BIG BLIND     ANTE     MINUTES    
1    25    50         60   
2    50    100         60   
3    75    150         60   
4    100    200         60   
5    150    300         60   
6    150    300    25    60   
7    200    400    50    60   
8    300    600    75    60   Chip race 25
9    400    800    100    60   
10    500    1000    100    60   
11    600    1200    100    60   
12    800    1600    200    60   
13    1000    2000    200    60   
14    1200    2400    300    60   
15    1500    3000    300    60   
16    2000    4000    400    60   Chip race 100
17    2500    5000    500    60   
18    3000    6000    500    60   Chip race
500
19    4000    8000    1000    60   
20    5000    10000    1000    60   
21    6000    12000    1000    60   
22    8000    16000    2000    60   
23    10000    20000    2000    60   
24    15000    30000    3000    60   
25    20000    40000    4000    60   
26    25000    50000    5000    60   
DAY 1A + 1B: level 1-8
DAY 2: level 9-16
DAY 3: down to final table
DAY 4: final table

Number of levels per day decided at tournament director's discretion

[DaveShoelace]

Is it me, or is this update thread the worst ever?

Get your fingers out and give us some chip counts now, or I want my money back and I'm going to stop posting on here forever.

Rob Hollink -- 10,000
Alex Kravchenko -- 10,000
Steve Jelinek -- 10,000
Maz Nawab -- 10,000
Cristiano Blanco -- 10,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 10,000
Katja Thater -- 10,000
Mats Iremark -- 10,000
Julian Thew -- 10,000
Johan Storakers -- 10,000
Ilari Sahamies -- 10,000

Nice to see Thewy up with the chip leaders as usual

[NoflopsHomer]

Is the Boris Becker PR machine in full spin today or has his appearance been sliced?

[taximan007]

Looking forward to the updates. Nice to see Jen updating again, means i have to get my dictionary out for the words she uses?

 

[JungleCat03]

Voila! The full player list as it stands at the moment. Many thanks to Pokerstars for providing this info...


Alexander Milanov 101
Carter Gill 102
Volker Pies 103
Alexander Kuzmin 104
Sandro Simon 105
Herbert Otto 106
Johan Storakers 107
Dalibo-Oliver Zjacic 108
Michael Wierzema 109

Sevinc Neumann 201
Patrice Roussel 202
Yven Poortinga 203
Rolf Marmann 204
Thomas Peterson 205
Lukasz Wasek 206
Lex Veldhuis 207
Christian Walczewski 208
Thibaut Durand 209

Senol Dede 301
Maciej Mazur 302
Reijo Antilla 303
Cort Kibler-Melby 304
Daniel Sandau 305
Kai Herold 306
Stefan Ebbing 307
Adrian Koy 308
Dominik Kulicki 309

Jens Vortmann 401
Eran Tas 402
Illari Sahamies 403
Dustin Mele 404
Roland Falk 405
Marcel CCesarz 406
Thomas Ermer 407
Erik Skarp 408
Marco Noll 409

Roberto Monti 501
Tommy pavilicek 502
Ahmed Koc  503
Macrel Baran 504
Jacques Kieft 505
Christopher Hancock 506
Olvedo Heinze 507
Waldemar Winke 508
Ville Mattila 509

Walter Porschen 601
Luigi Rizii 602
Mika Paasonen 603
Gijsbertus Spijkers 604
Jordane Beraldin 605
Timo Hendricks 606
Henrik Kask 607
Bulent Karsli 608
Henrik Brockmann 609

Rob Hollink 701
Tobias Reinkemeier 702
Juha Jaako 703
Juha Helppi 704
Gino Alacqua 705
Alexander Kravchenko 706
Laurent Lucker 707
Edwin Tournier 708
Andreas Hachmeister 709

Andre Schutzenhofer 801
Stefan Fuchs 802
Sebastian Zink 803
Gareth Teatum 804
Remko Kleijnen 805
Christopher Rossiter 806
Stuart Hosen 807
Nedzib Suman 808
Jan-Christopher von Halle 809

Jonas Odman 901
Thierry Van Der Berg 902
Giorgio Salemi 903
Martin El-Kehr 904
Richard Teatum 905
Antonio Amoros 906
Ikka Koskinen 907
Richard Fohrenbach 908
Peyman Mohammeadzedeh 909

Jan Boye 1001
Brent GIbson 1002
Malte Strothmann 1003
Jethro Wicha 1004
Kenneth Ljungars 1005
Marek Kolk 1006
Ciric Morade 1007
Steve Jelinek 1008
Eric Toby Newton 1009

Carmello Vasta 1101
Oguz Helvaci 1102
Anthony Chatelain 1103
John Chua 1104
Korosh Mollaie 1105
Simone Gallitti 1106
Ulrica Skonnemark 1107
Franz Josef Josten 1108
Marius Pospiech 1109

Scott McLeod 1201
Alexander Kostritsyn 1202
Alberto Spigolon 1203
Andre Schneider 1204
Oliver Berman 1205
Andreas Sarling 1206
Steve Roepke 1207
Nils Mazeaud 1208
Ralf Werner 1209

Horst Erfurth 1301
Pokerstars Pokerstars (I'm assuming this is a pokerstars qualifier, not someone with a bizarre name!) 1302
Matthias Guetermann 1303
Sebastian Ruthenburg 1304
Mimmo Giacomelli 1305
Angelika Mannsfield 1306
Mats Rahm 1307
Johannes Korsar 1308
Mark Lifman 1309

Dariusz Paszkiewicz 1401
Yngve Anderberg 1402
Viet Hung Tran 1403
Xizobiao Cai 1404
Tommy Hansen 1405
Sjoerd Bos 1406
Francesco Lopez 1407
Juan Lapido 1408
Robert Kay 1409

Berd Westhoff 1501
Vladimir Poleshchuk 1502
Andrea Manganelli 1503
Mazhar Nawab 1504
Vito Branciforte 1505
Christiano Blanko 1506
Andrej Nagy 1507
Anton Allermann 1508
Matias Tournier 1509

Haward Speer 1601
Jorg Engels 1602
Maurice Schepp 1603
Alessio Isaia 1604
Trevor Fishbein 1605
Peter Peterson 1606
Ramzi Jelassi 1607
Mazlum Acar 1608
Tommi Lindfors 1609

Vincent Gosselink 1701
Sorel Mizzi 1702
Dario Minieri 1703
Stefan Hachmeister 1704
Kasper Nielsen 1705
Katja Thater 1706
Alex Leviev 1707
Claudio Rinaldi 1708
Hans Eskilsson 1709

Csaba Kuremszki 1801
Derek Dix 1802
Jose Luis Valero 1803
Simon Munoz 1804
Riccardo Mazzitelli 1805
Jarkko Paasisalo 1806
Thomas Fougeron 1807
Nil Kristian Brattelteig 1809

Simon Johansson 1901
Gustav Lundholm 1902
Julian Thew 1903
Cyrille Chabot 1904
Daniele Mazzia 1905
Dan Walley 1906
Alexander Jagodik 1907
Mats Iremark 1908
Christian Toboc 1909

Graham Clarkson 2001
Michiel Brummelhuis 2002
Pal Hjertenes 2003
Jason Hackett 2004
Leroy Soesmann 2005
Daniel Smidt 2006
Daniel Ruiter 2007
Cornelius Eldering 2008
Joep Durkstra 2009

Victor Escudero 2101
Markus Lehmann 2102
Kevin Durand 2103
Jose Miguel Espinar 2105

Diego Perez Marco 2202
Rifat Palevic 2203

[JungleCat03]

Er, the last 2 tables look a bit odd. I think it's unlikely that table 21 will start 4 handed and table 22 heads up. Expect the vacant spaces to be populated with last minute registrations.


Incidentally there is some confusion happening during registration. Jen is out there investigating (at least that's the line she fed me, for all I know she is in the kitchen rubbing bacon grease into her hair with an expression of ecstacy etched onto her face)

We've been told that play is still 30 minutes or so away from starting....

[DaveShoelace]

Is the Boris Becker PR machine in full spin today or has his appearance been sliced?

My guess is he goes broke with king queen every EPT he plays.

Bluuuuudy sports stars, coming here, nicking our sponsorship deals, grrrrr.

[danafish]

Regular updates on Ahmed Koc, Jethro Wicha and Gijsbertus Spijker please.

[asgawer]

Is the Boris Becker PR machine in full spin today or has his appearance been sliced?

Boris won't be playing, Pokerstars apparently found out that he never played Real tennis. Must be quite embarassing, but could be a blessing in disguise unless he actually knows how to play poker.

Just kidding, Boris is a lock! Everyone else will have to fight for second place!

[Djinn]

There has been a lot of talking, in German, by none other than Thomas Kremser.  His Entrance Music is the theme from Rocky.  Cool.

Anyway, the upshot is that I think the cards are just about in the air and we have begun the Dortmund leg of the Pokerstars EPT...