Pokerstars.com EPT Dortmund: Day 1a - At a glance

[JungleCat03]

Hello and welcome to the EPT in Dortmund from myself and Jen.

This thread will be used purely for our updates form the tournament. Should you wish to request chip counts from us, or even be able to get a picture or two of your preferred combatants, click the link below to make your request on our interactive thread.

http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30844.0


We come fresh from the exciting welcoming party last night, which boasted such attractions as man spinning on head on football whilst juggling enormous baton with feet. There's probably a far more concise and aerodyte way of expressing that. Dude had skills, that's all I'm saying.

Also present as part of the entertainment were "Snake Woman" and "Fire Woman", sounding intriguingly like potential Heroes characters. Sadly, I missed out on these whilst trying to restrain "Chocolate Fountain Jen", less likely to make it into the heroes show, but definitely more focused than those two on trying to launch herself headfirst into the decadent chocolate fountain Pokerstars had provided.

Amongst the players at the party were Julian Thew of course, who was fresh faced and ready to add yet another title to his already bulging sack of trophies. Can anyone stop him? We were also joined by German player George Danzer, who although famous partly for sharing a table with Dimitri Noble (remember HIM!) in the 2006 WSOP, has recently picked up a sponsorship deal with pokerstars. Despite success at tournaments all over europe, fame from the part Danzer played in the 2006 WSOP has stayed with him, and I witnessed evidence of this as a drunk Canadian came over to him last night in an amusing exchange..

Drunk Canadian: "Hey man you're that guy who was on on Dmitri Noble's table...what a donk huh!"

GD: [laughing] "Yes, that's me"

DC: "I thought you were awwwwesome man! I'm totally bringing a t shirt down for you to sign tomorrow ok?"

GD: "Ok, sure"

DC: "Cool man! I'm gonna put it straight up on Ebay! Seeya tomorrow dude!"

Bizarre, but very amusing!


The EPT is due to commence at 15:00 over here in Dortmund, which will be 14:00 for you guys following in the UK. Once we get to the casino, we should have a little more information on runners, player lists etc so we will post them up in due course. Join us for what promises to be a quality tournament, packed with talent.

Seeyou there!

[Djinn]

Well we've traversed the woods and mountains, journeying far from our hotel on the other side of the country town.  The Casino Hohensyburg is a very pleasant venue - I remember it from last year - with its modern art and glass stairways and big tourney room.  Currently the players down for the first start day are mainly clumping around tall tables with tea and coffee, having picked up their Player IDs which will, hopefully, track their progress through the tournament a la Systeme du Jon Raab.

There's an atmosphere of competent cordiality here, and I have every hope that play will actually start in about half an hour.

Spotted (not playing today):  Daniel Negreanu

Spotted (playing today): Rob Hollink
Alex Kravchenko
Steve Jelinek
Maz Nawab
Cristiano Blanco
Sorel Mizzi
Katja Thater
Mats Iremark
Julian Thew
Johan Storakers
Ilari Sahamies

Spotted at party:
Annette Obrestad
Jan Heitmann
Marcel Luske
Woman in underwear wrapped in snake
Julian Thew (so good I named him twice)
Benjamin Gallen

Maybe it's time to take some pictures.

[Djinn]

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

[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

[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....

[Djinn]

Icy Katja Thater has had a good start to the first level, just now attracting a horde of journalists as she raised her opponent (probably but not certainly Stefan Hachmeister) to 4,500 from 1,600 with a board reading ...  A very long dwell during which many many photos were taken - and who was I to be the odd one out - and then he passed, reluctantly.  I think an was shown, for some reason.

[Djinn]

Good news for Graham Clarkson fans, too - he related this happy tale of early chips to me as I was passing through the room on the slightly overwhelming First Reconnaissance...

He picked up , raised it to 200, and found a re-raiser in position.  He called the 600 and flopped J-9-4.  "I quite liked that."  So he bet out a sneaky 700, was raised to 2,600 and said he was happy against a probable overpair: call.  The turn brought an which also brought a possible flush - now it went check-check... he wasn't so delighted with that, but he was delighted to see a blank river and A-8 in his opponent's hand...

Here he is, not letting his delight show, next to an immaculately-coiffed dealer lady.

[JungleCat03]

Ok, here is the full player list, including all 198 runners, courtesy of the benevolent folk at Pokerstars.

LastName   FirstName   Table   Seat
Milanov   Alexandar   1   1
Gill   Carter   1   2
Till   Sebastian   1   3
Kuzmin   Alexander   1   4
Simon   Sandro   1   5
Otto   Herbert   1   6
Storakes   Johan   1   7
Zjacic   Dalibor-Oliver   1   8
Wiertzema   Michael   1   9
Neumann   Sevinc   2   1
Roussel   Patrice   2   2
Poortinga   Yven   2   3
Marmann   Rolf   2   4
Peterson   Thomas   2   5
Wasek   Lukasz   2   6
Veldhuis   Lex   2   7
Walczewski   Christian   2   8
Durand   Thibaut   2   9
Dede   Senol   3   1
Mazur   Maciej   3   2
Antttila   Reijo   3   3
Kibler-Melby   Cort   3   4
Sandau   Daniel   3   5
Herold   Kai   3   6
Ebbing   Stefan   3   7
Koy   Adrian   3   8
Kulicki   Dominik   3   9
Vörtmann   Jens   4   1
Tas   Eran   4   2
Sahamies   Ilari   4   3
Mele   Dustin   4   4
Falk   Roland   4   5
Cesarz   Marcel   4   6
Ermer   Thomas   4   7
Skarp   Erik   4   8
Noll   Marco   4   9
Monti   Roberto   5   1
Pavilicek   Tommy   5   2
Koc   Ahmed   5   3
Baran   Marcel   5   4
Kieft   Jacques   5   5
Hancock   Christopher   5   6
Heinze   Olvedo   5   7
Winke   Waldemar   5   8
Mattila   Ville   5   9
Porschen   Walter   6   1
Rizzi   Luigi   6   2
Paasonen   Mika   6   3
Spijkers   Gijsbertus   6   4
Beraldin   Jordane   6   5
Hendriks   Timo   6   6
Kask   Henrik   6   7
Karsli   Bülent   6   8
Brockmann   Henrik   6   9
Hollink   Rob   7   1
Reinkemeier   Tobias   7   2
Lauttamus   Juha Jaako   7   3
Helppi   Juha   7   4
Alacqua   Gino   7   5
Kravchenko   Alexander   7   6
Iuncker   Laurent   7   7
Tournier   Edwin   7   8
Hachmeister   Andreas   7   9
Schützenhofer   Andre   8   1
Fuchs   Stefan   8   2
Zink   Sebastian   8   3
Teatum   Gareth   8   4
Kleijnen   Remko   8   5
Rossiter   Christopher   8   6
Hosen   Stuart   8   7
Suman   Nedzib   8   8
von Halle   Jan-Christoph   8   9
Ödman   Jonas   9   1
van der Berg   Thierry   9   2
Salemi   Giorgio   9   3
El-Kehr   Martin   9   4
Teatum   Richard   9   5
Amoros   Antonio   9   6
Koskinen   Ikka   9   7
Fohrenbach   Richard   9   8
Mohammadzadeh   Peyman   9   9
Boye   Jan   10   1
Gibson   Brent   10   2
Strothmann   Malte   10   3
Wicha   Jethro   10   4
Ljungars   Kenneth   10   5
Kolk   Marek   10   6
Morade   Ciric   10   7
Jelinek   Steve   10   8
Newton   Eric Toby   10   9
Vasta   Carmello   11   1
Helvaci   Oguz   11   2
Chatelain   Anthony   11   3
Chua   John   11   4
Mollaie   Korosh   11   5
Gallitti   Simone   11   6
Skönnemark   Ulrica   11   7
Josten   Franz Josef   11   8
Pospiech   Marius   11   9
McLeod   Scott   12   1
Kostritsyn   Alexander   12   2
Spigolon   Alberto   12   3
Schneider   Andre   12   4
Berman   Oliver   12   5
Sarling   Andreas   12   6
Roepke   Steve   12   7
Mazeaud   Nils   12   8
Werner   Ralf   12   9
Erfurth   Horst   13   1
van Zadelhoff   Steven   13   2
Guetermann   Matthias   13   3
Ruthenberg   Sebastian   13   4
Giacomelli   Mimmo   13   5
Mannsfeld   Angelika   13   6
Rahm Mats   Andres   13   7
Korsar   Johannes   13   8
Lifman   Markus   13   9
Paszkiewicz   Daruisz   14   1
Anderberg   Yngne   14   2
Tran   Viet Hung   14   3
Cai   Xiaobiao   14   4
Hansen   Tommy   14   5
Bos   Sjoerd   14   6
Lopez   Francisco   14   7
Lapido   Juan   14   8
Kay   Roberto   14   9
Westhoff   Berd   15   1
Poleshchuk   Vladimir   15   2
Manganelli   Andrea   15   3
Nawab   Mazhar   15   4
Branciforte   Vito   15   5
Blanko   Christiano   15   6
Nagy   Andrej   15   7
Allemann   Anton   15   8
Tournier   Matias   15   9
Speer   Haward   16   1
Engels   Jörg   16   2
Schepp   Maurice   16   3
Isaia   Alessio   16   4
Fishbein   Trevor   16   5
Peterson   Peter   16   6
Jelassi   Ramzi   16   7
Acar   Mazlum   16   8
Lindfors   Tommi   16   9
Gosselink   Vincent   17   1
Mizzi   Sorel   17   2
Minieri   Dario   17   3
Hachmeister   Stefan   17   4
Nielsen   Kasper   17   5
Thater   Katja   17   6
Leviev   Alex   17   7
Rinaldi   Claudio   17   8
Eskilsson   Hans   17   9
Csaba   Kuremszki   18   1
Dix   Derek   18   2
Valero   Jose Luis   18   3
Munoz   Simon   18   4
Mazzitelli   Riccardo   18   5
Paasisalo   Jarkko   18   6
Fougeron   Thomas   18   7
Marmorstein   Phillip   18   8
Bratteteig   Nils Kristian   18   9
Johansson   Simon   19   1
Lundholm   Gustav   19   2
Thew   Julian   19   3
Cyrille   Chabot   19   4
Mazzia   Daniele   19   5
Walley   Dan   19   6
Jagodik   Alexander   19   7
Iremark   Mats Erik   19   8
Toboc   Christian   19   9
Clarkson   Graham   20   1
Brummelhuis   Michiel   20   2
Hjertenes   Pål   20   3
Hackett   Jason   20   4
Soesman   Leroy   20   5
Smidt   Daniel   20   6
Ruiter   Daniel   20   7
Eldering   Cornelius   20   8
Durkstra   Joep   20   9
Escudero   Victor   21   1
Lehmann   Markus   21   2
Alblas   Kees   21   3
van Luijk   Dirk   21   4
Espinar   Jose Miguel   21   5
Klecz   Christiane   21   6
Kranich   Moritz   21   7
Nguyen   Thang Duc   21   8
Straßmann   Johannes   21   9
Kollmann   Erich   22   1
Perez Marco   Diego   22   2
Palevic   Rifat   22   3
Krause   Andreas   22   4
Istvàn   Szikrai   22   5
McDonald   Michael   22   6
Metaal   Govert   22   7
Lee   Redmond   22   8
Mathis   Rino   22   9




I'm off to find out how some unusually named players are doing...(thanks guys  )

[Djinn]

Dario Minieri is raising a little, a lot (if that makes any sense).  Midway through level one, a standard hand would start:  Minieri raise to 150.  Five callers.  Minieri bet out 575... and that's where the differences in hands would start to emerge, as people took exciting advantage of their full range of options (call, raise and fold).
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Elsewhere, Monte Carlo Finalist Steve Jelinek (here pictured in stark profile - intentional, of course) has been "bluffed off a pot, after flopping quad Aces in an unraised pot."  He is not talking about the same pot, here.

"I only won 600," he lamented, over the ghosts of all those Aces... his opponent in that hand (probably) piped up there to say, "You are greedy!  You want all my money!"  He didn't confirm or deny this.

[Djinn]

chip counts as the first break draws near...

Francisco Lopez -- 10,600
Juan Lapido -- 15,600
Johan Storakers -- 2,975
Ilari Sahamies -- 2,300
Graham Clarkson -- 9,775  ("I've gone back to the start.")
Mats Iremark -- 16,000
Julian Thew -- 14,000
Thomas Fougeron -- 7,500
Sorel Mizzi -- 10,350
Dario Minieri -- 6,325
Ramzi Jelassi -- 10,600
Katja Thater -- 15,000

Also the trio of Juhas Jakko (11,000) and Helppi (19,000) and Gino Alacqua (3,775) pictured here:

[JungleCat03]

Good grief, what a Player List. Thanks from all of us at home for taking the time to type up that lot, it must have taken an age, especially with those German names in such abundance. Are they real names, or just anagrams?

Regular Updates please on....



Tobias Reinkemeier

Andre Schutzenhofer

Gareth Teatum. (Is that Red-Dog in disguise?)

Peyman Mohammeadzedeh


I thank you.

None of the above have deviated too far from their initial starting stack.

Here is the intriguingly named Peyman Mohammadzadeh. He saw me creeping up with my camera and immediately struck what he deemed to be a "man of steel" pose.



He is currently on 9,000 or so...


Gareth Teatum looks like he may have increased his starting stack marginally.



He was involved in a hand as I watched his table. His diminuative table partner( in physical size only I'm sure) Sebastian Zink, who is becoming a regular at the EPTs now, made a smallish raise from the small blind. Gareth called from the big blind.

The flop came .

Sebastian checked, and Gareth now bet out 3-400. Sebastian called.

The turn was the .

Check, check.

The river was the and again both players checked.

Gareth turned over for 2nd pair, whilst a releived Zink tabled to take down the pot.

Here he is raking the pot in off Gareth, with perhaps just s hint of smugness that his underpair to the board was good...




Andre Shutzenhofer, is aiming to take down the best Paul Parker dress-a-like competition. Here is is looking flamboyent, but he'll need to add some more colour to his waistcoats if he is to emulate the GUKPT's snappiest dresser...



Again he is not far from his initial starting stack of 10k here.

I have included the dealer in the shot, so you can marvel at the sartorial elegance of the diligent men and women who are distributing the cards today...


Finally...

Tobias Reinkemeier. If any of his family see this photo, DON'T PANIC! Tobias is fine, perfectly healthy and definitely not in the middle stages of a stroke. (Blame my amateurish photographic skills for any suggestion otherwise!)



He doesn't look to have got toooo invovled yet and although he kept his chips well covered, I would say he was still in the area of 8-10k....

[Djinn]

Claudio Rinaldi takes a chunk of chips from Dario Minieri, in a hand which I saw from the turn, when blue (1k chips) started getting waved around...
The board:  .  Rinaldi bet out 600, and faced a raise to 2,000.  He called.
River:   Now Rinaldi check-called the multicoloured 3,475 bet from Minieri - and his was good.  I saw the and something else small and flushdrawy in Dario's hand which was shown down and then promptly mucked. 
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[JungleCat03]

Do they still have all the free food and free booze like last year?

They put sausage in everything.

Yes, there are stacks and stacks of chocolate bars, bottles of juice as far as the eye can see, and plentiful supplies of fresh coffee and tea.

Jen came in a while ago boasting about finding this chocolate bar. She was sooo smug about it.



Naturally this aroused my competitive streak so I sought out and found a clearly superior confectionary product.



I see your Corny Fresh and raise you a Corny BIG!

In your face baconhair!


The internet connection has become somewhat imtermittent so apologies for any delays in coverage.


News is in that the explosive Italian Dario Minieri is out. More details as and when we have them...

[JungleCat03]

Alexander Kuzmin was seen passing to a Carter Gill's check raise on a board. He dwelt and dwelt for ages before folding, suggesting he had a tough decision, perhaps with an overpair.

"Good fold" Gill told him "I had pocket ."

Maybe he did....but then again...


Jorg Engels, who had become rather short was seen getting his 4k or so stack in preflop versus Peter Peterson.

Holding a mighty pair of Kings, he found himself dominating Peter's 9 s.

Once the dust had settled and a board of Q-J-A-J-T had transpired, Jorg had doubled through to roughly 8k.

"Nice hand" Peterson told him, in the conventional fashion. Jorg's response lacked length, but made up for it in veracity. "Yes it was"


Sebastian Zink, who is now perched at the lofty heights of well, around 13k, was seen betting the turn of An A-K-5-J board, getting Jan-Christophe Von Halle to fold.

Zink is looking very laid back and chilled, as he slowly but surely increases his stack...