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

[JungleCat03]

Hello and welcome back  for Day 1b of the Dortmund EPT.

Yesterday's play was packed with drama and intrigue, and today's action could well prove to be yet more exciting. A mixture of illustrious and familiar faces are scheduled to fight it out and we'll be closely monitoring the progress of Dan Carter, Stu Rutter, Marcel Luske, Annette_15, Rolf Slotboom, George Danzer and Daniel Negreanu amongst others. The list of names appearing poses some interesting questions...

....will Annette continue her seemingly unstoppable recent Thewy-esque run of results?

....can anyone Get Carter?

....will Marcel Luske-box his way through the field?

and perhaps most crucially, who will have the last scarf out of Stu Rutter and George Danzer?

I couldn't think of a terrible pun to associate with Dan Negreanu, but his reputation precedes him and, never the shrinking violet, Kid Poker will no doubt provide his table with its fair share of entertainment.

They will all be looking to join the likes of current chip leader Cyrille Chabot, well placed former EPT winner Mats Iremark and English players Maz Nawab, Redmond Lee and Steve Jelinek, who have all played some great poker to earn their passage into day 2.


So what looks like a fantastic day's poker in prospect is imminent as the race for the latest EPT gathers momentum and begins to hot up. There can be only one!

Join us to find out who...See you soon.


[This is the "At a glance" thread which has a more concise report of events. Should you wish to make requests of the updaters, Jen(Djinn) and Rod (Junglecat03) for chip counts, photos and other information on your favorite players, you can visit the interactive thread - http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=30882.new#new]

[Djinn]

Today the queuefest of the registration seems to have been brought well under control and we're looking at a pretty timely start to this Day One.  When we arrived in the press room (suddenly full to absolute bursting) Mad Harper explained the sudded rush... "Everyone's playing today.  Everyone."  Well, that's why everyone's media is all abuzz, then...

A few of the players, just to whet the appetite (I will bribe Junglecat to type the whole thing up again with the promise of a Corny Big Cereal Breakfast Treat)...

Thor Hansen
Pascal Perrault
Brandon Schaefer
Nicolas Levi
Antony Lellouche
Elky
Stuart Rutter
Tomas Brolin
Sigi Stockinger
Woody Deck
Noah Boeken
Ben Grundy
Markus Golser
Daniel Negreanu
Sasa Biorac
Christian Grundtvig
Philip Yeh
Dan Carter
Peter Gould
Josh Gould

[Djinn]

Oh no need for hours of tedious data entry today!  Pokerstars' media tsarina Mad has just sent us this (it's not quite a full list - the totally last minute sneakers-in won't be on there) but it's pretty good:

Ognyan Ivanov
Philip Collins
Guido Meacci
Jose Luis Gomez Rubio
Torsten Haase
Boaz Lavie
Sándor Hollaar
Mario Kühl
Stefano Busino
Paul Testud
Jens Lübbe
Ricardo Sousa
Daniel Negreanu
Christoph Geier
Daniel Pidun
tbc
Aliaksandr Dzianisau
Rolf Weißhaupt
Daniel Bolton
Hardy Behling
Glenn Sullivan
Arnaud Mattern
Jim Finnegan
Matthias Neu
Björn Enberg
Michael Durrer
Kristoffer Myhre
Annette Obrestad
Vikke Toumaala
Manfred Baß
Alexander Spachmann
Gunnar Rabe
Andrers Henriksson
Tilmann Ebeling
Shahram Rastegari
Carsten Joh
Heinz Piroth
Markus Henderkes
Stephan Gerin
Eugen Frey
Christian Harder
Matthias Lehmann
Marc Friedmann
Noah Boeken
Bernhard Damnik
Joseph Elpayaa
Dan Owsten
Manfred Hammer
Michael Friedrich
Martin Kaya
Martin Kläser
Marc Dötsch
Michael Schulze
Jacques Zaicik
Xiaobiao Cai
Maria Maceiras Lapido
Christoffer Sonesson
Andreas Torbergsen
Stanley Chon
Mike Murray
Mika Turpeinen
Johannes Steindl
Lars Laarsson
Edward Katzka
Russell Carson
Peter Gould
Jameson Painter
Kevin Durand
Ralf Pelzner
Ram Vaswani
Woody Deck
Davide Fazzone
Torsten Hinze
Robert Ross
Haim Kakoun
Markus Golser
Sasa Biorac
Sven Leu
Piotr Jopp
Joseph Bolnick
Dennis P
Markus Scharhag
Matt Kay
Michael Kwiek
Ludovic Lacay
Danny Ehrenberg
Thomas Rauhut
Joshua Gould
Vinh Nguyen
Philip Yeh
Christian Grundtvig
Stig Top Rasmussen
Daniel Ryan
Ben Grundy
Jan Heitmann
Sigfried Stockinger
Sebastian Freudenberg
Kai Herold
Jonas Soerensen
Ulrich Trautenberg
Alexander Clauss
Markus Gisdol
David Lacoste
Dario De Angelis
Marciano Elie
Drobyna Denys
Anthony Spinella
Rami Boukai
Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen
Roy von der Locht
Ben Wolbers 1
Andreas Hoivold
Gleb Privalov
Rolf Slotboom
Felix Pham
Raul Paez Corral
Micha Hoedemaker
Christian Groesdonk
Bertrand Grospellier
Marcel Luske
Van Leest
Michael Keiner
Frank Rotter
Eric Larcheveque
Matias Isopahkala
Benjamin Zamani
Mikael Norinder
Fabio Bianchi
George Danzer
Maurizio Carra
Maximilian Bracht
Marcus Tandler
Peter Ameskamp
Christian Taepper
Luis Tier
Horst Koch
Pouya Pouya Majd
Guillaume de la Gorce
Stuart Rutter
Henrik Sjöberg
Tomas Brolin
Luca Pagano
Hugo Marialva Felix
Nicolas Levi
Rasmus Edenfall
Antony Lellouche
Luis David Sevilla Petit
Tyler Friederich
Henrik Lennholm
Pascal Perrault
Derya Apuhan
Benjamin Kang
Brandon Schaefer
Harald Dohm
Thor Hansen
Aram Sargsyan
Frederik Keitel
Kenan Satici
Patrick Bueno
Charalampos Tsaoussis
Daniel Zink
Gerd Wandel
Joris Jasper
Michael Lang
Andrew Amdur
Raul Mestre
Pavel Blatny
Michael Finn
Coca Aniol Alcaraz
Andreas Zwickel
Maik Brandau
Tim Michels
Vincent Courtois
Valerio Scoppa
Kevin Niegot
Robert Stain
Marco Liesy
Filifoz Yigit
Guido Kempkes
Nazim Kicik
Oliver Bösch
Klas Krueger
Daniel Carter
Jiri Vacek
Roland Specht
Michael Klimt
Christian Grundtvig 2
Georgios Gatselos
Dragoslav Timarac
Frank Werder
Remy Biechel
André Santos
Jose Maria Puertas Nieto
Will Molson
Henryk Nowakowski
Iliodors Kamatakis
Gianvalerio Bindi
Stefan Rotach
Guido Kempkes
Jioí Kulhánek
Markus Neuhoeffer
Juan Barrachina
Soraya Homam
Alexander Fett
Marten Jensen
Andrew Atmaca
Samir Hamudic
Veysel Kortan
Friket Aydin
Martin Hruby
Nikolaos Panopoulos

[NoflopsHomer]

Hey everyone, I've just had a text from Jen saying the Internet is down, hopefully it'll be back up soon, but in the meantime, the updaters are searching for the good ol' wireless cards.

[Djinn]

Some chip counts from the approach to the first break, and Featured Photo - Stuart Rutter, in blinding hoody having amassed a comfy stack of 17,500 after something involving 4-5 on an A-6-3 board (two on turn, naturally...)



May Maceiras -- 13,750
Paul Testud -- 15,000
Daniel Negreanu -- 6,325
Arnaud Mattern -- 13,800
Annette Obrestad -- 13,000
Dan Carter -- 11,500
Roland de Wolfe -- 4,150
Peter Gould -- 8,500
Ram Vaswani -- 19,400
Andreas Hoivold -- 18,000
Rolf Slotboom -- 13,500
Bertrand Grospellier -- 27,000 (probable leader)
Marcel Luske -- 11,250
Mikael Norinder -- 11,500
George Danzer -- 9,100
Benjamin Kang -- 12,350
Soraya Homam -- 8,350

[Djinn]

Double Up for Frenchman Paul Testud:

He got involved with preflop standardraiser Hardy Behling (according to my list), calling the 300 and seeing a flop of: .  Behling bet out 600, called by Testud...
Along came the .  Now Behling bet out 2,000, raised rather quickly to 5,000... he called.
River:   Check to Testud who announced, "All in," but really had half a bowl of rice behind - just 1,200.  The dealer counted it out - it looked like more (good old shrapnel)...and Negreanu helpfully translated: "Ein thousand zwei hundred.  I knew that!" 

A reluctant Behling made the call, knocking himself almost to the felt when he saw Testud's , mucking his .
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Ram Vaswani appears to be raising most hands, to 350, which might explain his nice early stack (either that, or the absence of Woody Deck, erstwhile tablemate and now OUT)...but people aren't playing along - just now Peter Gould re-raised him from the big blind preflop and Big Blind Matey super-slowplayed the flopped nuts against him... got to be a bit wary even with double the average.  Although that helps.

Pictured here with Mr. Deck (Now you see me...)

[Djinn]

An interesting hand developed between masked avenger Rolf Slotboom and Roy Von Der Locht.  The tic tac tower, when it comes into play, inevitably does so with the slow deliberation of a treacly snail with a keen poker radar...

I caught this pot from the point where there was 2k in the middle, and a threeway flop of being stared at intently.  Check to von der Locht, who bet 1,500, called by Rolf...
Turn:   Check-check
River:   Now Rolf bets out the surprise number of 525...and is raised to 3,000 - both players' movement very slow and deliberate like some kind of underwater ballet...
Rolf goes into the tank now, making a sound like, "Ayayayayay" which was clearly one of consternation, but eventually he makes the call... His neighbour with some kind of sixth sense goes, "Nines..."

Rolf Slotboom shows:
Roy Von Der Locht shows:

How about that.

[Djinn]

Any Ben Grundy update.

thanks

Some counts from Table Grundy:

Sigi Stockinger -- 8,125
Jan Heitmann -- 15,375
Ben Grundy -- 3,500
Danny Ryan -- 16,800
Stig Top Rasmussen -- 9,050
Christian Grundtvig -- 6,850

Ben said that he was another last minute why-not-er, and told us that he would either get lots of chips or be going home to move house tomorrow.  Yes, move all worldly possessions to a new house - the thing which apparently tops the list on any stress-meter.  What better way to relax than a potentially 24-hour trip to Germany and a dabble in the EPT?  He was still in at the last break, but will go have another check...

[JungleCat03]

We are immensely grateful to have been issued t-mobile cards in the press room, meaning, hopefully...

Click to see full-size image.

...we won't have too many more problems with connection and can bring you the exciting developments as they happen.  HOORAY!


Without further ado, here are some shots of players requested earlier...

The prestige of the EPT is such that people are prepared to go to amazingly lengths to ensure they are a part of it. Take this man for example. Here we have one of John Travolta's cohorts from "Grease", who has made the effort to actually travel forward in time from the 70s to be here today. Now THAT'S dedication...



I am, of course, being facetious. In fact, this gentleman is none other than Kevin Durand (I'm fairly sure!) and we wish him, and his cracking leather jacket and quiff, the best of luck.


Ram's been accumulating chips with his aggressive style and is going great guns at the moment. For a moment, I just want to concentrate on his jumper though. I thought it looked familiar but I couldn't place it. Then a lightbulb went on in my head....AHH OF COURSE!

[Djinn]

Roland de Wolfe busted just after the last break, after being knocked to around 4k having "run into Aces...with two pair.  Ace on the river..."

The rest of it went in, according to Dan Carter, to whom I apologise unreservedly about the hair slander, like so:

He limped with  (we'll call it that suit just so I can use the cards), and there were a few more callers...

Flop: K-3-2 (with two hearts).  He bet out big, but still received three callers for the turn, at which point he shoved his final 2.5k into a pot of around 2k.  Only one player took him on - with the (that is, for the slow of computation, a pair of Nines and a flush draw)... the river was the , and curtains for Mr. de Wolfe.

[JungleCat03]

Here is Annette about an hour or so ago. She cuts a small but imposing figure at the table...

Would you mess with this lady?




Noah Boeken, again from roughly an hour ago.



Despite Jen's earlier find of gaudily coloured ski jacket guy, surely Noah has a strong claim for the most outrageously designed hoody. He's not just here to make up the numbers though, a very strong and experienced player, Noah has the game to go deep and is another that seems to have brought him own personal and highly vocal fan club with him.


And, although this gentleman had no identifying number in front of me, he should be Dan Bolton.  Correct me if I'm wrong. At the time of the photo, he had just below his starting stack of 10,000.




Just to prove Daniel Negreanu is indeed here, I snapped him at his table. He had just lost a pot at this point (smallish) so didn't have his usual beaming smile plastered across his face, for once!

[Djinn]

Hi
Could you inform aboout May Maceiras. Table 7 seat 1. Girl.
Say har "hola".
Thans
Juan.

Hola!

Here's your lady, looking quite imposing, and potentially in disguise.  She was up to 15k at last check, but as I say we are a little out of date with the chip counts... just about to do a full run while the players get out of the way for the dinner break.


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George Danzer has just busted - three players with 10k-ish each got it all in on a 3-4-5 flop.
Danzer:  A-2 for the wheely little straight
LosingMatey: "He found a Six."  I take this to mean he called with an open-ended...
WinningMatey: "He'd flopped a set and then filled up."

Here he was, pictured in happier times with only the faintest hint of devilish redeye:

[JungleCat03]

Hi Guys

Can you find out chip count for David owstan

Thanks

Hey guys sorry to be a apin but is there anychance you find out how a certain mr Dan Owsten is doing much appreciated

Sure, we're just clearing a mini backlog of information we've been trying to force online for the last level - will check on him as soon as possible...

The much followed Dan Owstan is on.....[cue drum roll]....7,250!

Ok, so it may have been ever so slightly anticlimactic. We will see if we can fill out the bare bones of this limp statistic with some more fleshy details when we get the chance to talk to, or at least snap Dan once he has finished his dinner break.

In the meanwhile, prepare to gorge yourselves upon a veritable feast of statistics, as Jen and me have just collected chip counts from tables 1-10. Give our little fingers time to tap them all out and we'll be back in a mo...

[Djinn]

The staggered dinner break means that today we were prepared and are going to attempt to bring full counts from this level.  Yes - every player...

Here goes:

Table 2

Paul Testud -- 15,000
Jens Lübbe -- 12,550
Ricardo Sousa -- 10,600
Daniel Negreanu -- 10,900
Christoph Geier -- 7,400
Will Molson -- 4,550
Rolf Weißhaupt -- 14,500
Daniel Bolton -- 18,400
Hardy Behling -- 5,100

Table 3

Glenn Sullivan -- OUT/Moved
Robert Stain -- 19,875
Arnaud Mattern -- 14,250
Jim Finnegan -- 6,850
Matthias Neu -- 21,500
Björn Enberg -- 8,350
Michael Durrer -- 10,875
Kristoffer Myhre -- 5,700
Annette Obrestad -- 19,000
Vikke Toumaala -- 5,950

Table 4

Manfred Baß -- 17,075
Alexander Spachmann -- 18,675
Gunnar Rabe -- OUT/Moved
Soraya Homam -- 7,875
Andrers Henriksson -- 10,650
Tilmann Ebeling -- 6,700
Shahram Rastegari -- 4,050
Carsten Joh -- 24,500
Heinz Piroth -- OUT/Moved
Markus Henderkes -- OUT/Moved
Coca Aniol Alcaraz -- 23,000
Roland Specht -- 9,350

Table 5

Stephan Gerin -- 26,800
Eugen Frey -- 11,975
Christian Harder -- 8,975
Matthias Lehmann -- OUT/Moved
Marc Friedmann -- OUT/Moved
?
Noah Boeken -- 16,000
Bernhard Damnik -- 16,150
Joseph Elpayaa -- 1,200

Table 6

Dan Owsten -- 7,250
? -- 9,400
Manfred Hammer -- 6,150
Michael Friedrich -- OUT/Moved
Samir Hamudic -- 15,000
Martin Kaya -- 14,900
Martin Kläser -- 11,800
Marc Dötsch -- 17,050
Michael Schulze -- 6,300
Jacques Zaicik -- 10,050

Table 7

Maria Maceiras Lapido -- 13,450
Christoffer Sonesson -- 17,000
Andreas Torbergsen -- 18,000
Stanley Chon -- 11,900
Mike Murray -- 3,500
Mika Turpeinen -- 12,500
Johannes Steindl -- 13,225
Lars Laarsson -- 3,600
Edward Katzka -- 9,975

Xiaobiao Cai

[JungleCat03]

Ok, here are the chip counts part deux.

Enjoy!

16500   Russell Carson
10500   Michael Klimt
20000   Jameson Painter
8000   Kevin Durand
7400   Jose Maria Puertas Nieto
27500   Ram Vaswani
23500   Jioí Kulhánek
9000   Alexander Fett
5625   Torsten Hinze
4100   Robert Ross
9500   Haim Kakoun
13800   Markus Golser
12500   Sasa Biorac
9800   Guido KempKes
18400   Piotr Jopp
12400   Joseph Bolnick
11700   Dennis P
10200   Markus Scharhag
22500   Matt Kay
13200   Michael Kwiek
15600   Gianvalerio Bindi
17750   Danny Ehrenberg
10575   Raul Mestre
3750   ??
10500   ??
18300   ??
6050   Ognyan Ivanov
7950   Filifoz Yigit
9000   Martin Hruby