Pokerstars.com EPT Dortmund: Day 2 - Interactive

[Djinn]

Climber of the Day is most probably Jan Heitmann, whose 50k+ started as this little stack you see in this photo.  He was in fact all in for his tournament life in level one, with a stack that couldn't make a raiser pass, so congrats to him.  I think his secret weapon at the table is velour mixed with aggression.

[taximan007]

And finally, for all you Gummi bear troops out there, miles from your loved ones, feeling the inevitable pinch of loneliness in the trenches....here's a bit of eye-candy for you guys too...


I give you the dancing bears...

To the left...



To the right...



The crowds are loving the show!

So so Good. 

[taximan007]

The poker updates are very good also, thank you

[JungleCat03]

Ok, here are some things that are happening (poker-related!)


First off we have Dan Carter who looks to be on around 43k or so.

I captured him just as his table neighbour Thor Hansen was caught happily collecting a pot he had recently won.




This is an interesting table with Mats Iremark and Daniel Negreanu sitting next to each other.

At the time of this snap Mats had roughly 65-70k whilst Daniel was a bit behind this with 30-35k.

Here they are sharing a joke...



UPDATE!!

Negreanu is OUT! That's righ, the diminuative Canadian has lost all his chips and bitten the dust...more details shortly...


Steve Jelinek has lost some chips.

I joined this hand on the river where it went check check and a decent sized pot was passed to the Richard Forenbach, Steve showing A-8 for 2nd pair and Richard K-Q for top pair.

Here they are sandwiching Annette (circa 40k) as Richard merrily sweeps up his newly won chips whilst Steve on the left looks somewhat less enthusiastic about the result as he is left fairly short on 15k or so...




Katja Thater has just won a pot to increase her shortish stack.  After facing a bet of 4.5k from German player Marc Dotsch on a board of , she thought a while before picking up the rest of her 16k or so stack and pushing it all in. Dotsch folded after a short pause...

Here is attractive German bracelet winner Katja Thater scooping up the pot that keeps her alive.



And here's Marc, add your own caption...

nice spot finding the ginger one from that 70s show but if you wanna impress me find me a mila kunis lookalikey (brunnette spoilt B***h from that 70s show)

Best I could do at short notice...

- 70s show...

[Djinn]

Climber of the Day is most probably Jan Heitmann, whose 50k+ started as this little stack you see in this photo.  He was in fact all in for his tournament life in level one, with a stack that couldn't make a raiser pass, so congrats to him.  I think his secret weapon at the table is velour mixed with aggression.

And it's been a good day so far - just saw his cards on their backs and his whole stack in the middle - covered by his opponent Michael Kwiek.  He held and Kwiek .  The board had just finished being dealt as: but I think most of the money went in on the flop which was in all likelihood A-7-7 rather than the other way around.  Jan now on 130,000.

[JungleCat03]

Wow! First one of the favourites in Negreanu falls, now Annette Obrestad has also bitten the dust...

Again, it happened so fast we have few details but she was heard saying "I lost a 40-60 after having a bad day..."


Here is the chilled out tic tac man himself, Rolf Slotboom. Radio Rolf was in full effect as I joined his table...

[Djinn]

Johannes Strassmann, who started the day on 6,100, has now topped the 90k mark.  His chip multiplication skills have not gone unnoticed by his tablemates - one of them said as I walked by, "Hey, you've chipped up nicely from 6k..."
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Ramzi Jelassi Vs. Pocket Queens

Ramzi: 1, Queens: 1

The young Swedish player has slowly climbed in chips, peaking just under 50k before the dinner break.  But he only ever seems to play a hand when his opponent has Q-Q.  The first time, he'd raised to 4k under the gun, and Stefan Wrenger re-raised in late position - it was either a minraise or just over, but Jelassi folded and was shown which was probably a fair mile ahead of him...

Then Jacques Zaicik raised to 5k preflop and when it folded round to s.b. Jelassi he thought about it briefly, then announced all in.  It looked like Zaicik with his 42k behind covered him, but it was one of those tournament-life decisions in reality for him.  He went through the wringer visibly - hands all over face, behind head, shrugging and giving every appearance of being in something approaching physical pain. 

"You can beat me," said Zaicik
"I think I can."
"There are very few cards to beat me."  At this point everybody on the table has probably some idea of what he's holding...

"I am going to show you," he says, laying down .
"Very stong fold," offered Ramzi, as deadpan as it is possible to be.

[alexross]

Negreanu is OUT! That's righ, the diminuative Canadian has lost all his chips and bitten the dust...more details shortly...

  He raised and got one caller to see the flop of . Both players checked and Negreanu bet 9K on the  turn, with 11K behind. His opponent went all in holding A-9 and Negreanu called with . No six, three or diamond appeared on the river 

[Djinn]

Dan Carter won a nice pot before the dinner break (although 10 minutes seems enough time for him to reverse and re-reverse his fortune another couple of times)... I caught it from the turn when Dan was betting 4k in position on a board of .  He was called by Anders Henriksson.
River:    Henriksson checked, and then considered the 9k bet at him.  Eventually he called - paying off Dan Carter's for the turned straight.  It looked at that point as though Dan was over 60k.

[Mango99]

Yahooooo... Awesome updates!!

I'm off down the casino now for a slightly lower staked game (£10 rebuy super sat for GBPT Edinburgh). I'll be following the updates at the casino tho. Thank god for mobiles!

[Kara]

I bloody love your updates! I'm here in the casino and I still get a lot of my info from you guys

The gummi bear updates are slightly edging out the poker for me in terms of favorite though....

[NoflopsHomer]

I take the yellow gummis in a last longer against anyone else...

[jslaso]

Wow! First one of the favourites in Negreanu falls, now Annette Obrestad has also bitten the dust...

Again, it happened so fast we have few details but she was heard saying "I lost a 40-60 after having a bad day..."

Sigh.  Oh well, at least I enjoyed the dancing bears.  Guess I'll be seeing you guys in Copenhagen.

[Djinn]

This has been the Dinner Break.  In case the Tournament Clock at the top of the page was missed by anyone. 

Here are the counts at the end of the last level, courtesy of Mad at Pokerstars:

Diego Perez Marco    Spain       179,600
Michael McDonald    Canada       175,000
Claudio Rinaldi    Switzerland    168,000
Tyler Friederich    USA       153,000
Michael Kwiek    Unknown       120,000
Marcel Luske    Netherlands    120,000
Jan Heitmann    Germany    114,000
Chabot Cyrille    France       112,000
Aniol Alcaraz    Spain       109,700
Daniel Ryan    USA       97,000
Bernhard Damnik    Germany    96,800
Manfred Bass    Germany       95,000
Stefan Rotach    Switzerland       94,800
Alexandar Milanov    Russia       88,800
Mats Erik Iremark    Sweden       82,000
Daniel Carter    UK       76,000
Peyman Mohammadzadeh    Germany    74,400
Stefan Wrenger    Germany       74,200
Andreas Gülünay    Germany   74,200
Thibaut Durand    France       74,100
Thor Hansen    Norway       74,000
Torsten Haase    Germany    72,000
Raul Paez    Spain       72,000
Marciano Elie    France       69,200
Marco Liesy    Germany    68,000
Christopher Rossiter    UK    63,100
Edwin Tournier    Netherlands    61,600
Daniele Mazzia    Italy       60,200
Anders Henriksson    Sweden       57,000
Johannes Strassmann    Germany       55,800
Mario Kühl    Germany          53,400
Marcus Tandler    Germany        51,000
Richard Fohrenbach    USA           50,100
Reijo Anttila    Finland        45,000
Jacques Zaicik    France           42,600
Hugo Marialva Felix    Portugal           40,600
Katja Thater    Germany        40,400
Szikrai Istvàn    Hungary           40,000
Manfred Hammer    Germany           39,400
Daniel Bolton    Ireland        37,000
Ramzi Jelassi    Sweden           36,900
Simone Gallitti    Italy       36,500
Frank Werder    Germany          34,400
Brandon Schaefer    USA           34,000
Mika Turpeinen    Finland        33,700
Jiri Vacek    Czech Republic           32,800
Christian Harder    USA        32,100
Markus Golser    Austria           31,800
Steve Jelinek    UK        31,400
Nikolas Behling    Germany           29,000
Thomas Petersen    Sweden        28,600
Jordane Beraldin    France           27,100
Daniel Ruiter    Netherlands           27,000
Ville Mattila    Finland           25,800
Ralf Werner    Germany           25,300
Rolf Slotboom    Netherlands           23,800
Henrik Brockmann    Germany           22,500
Pascal Perrault    France           22,200
Gianvalerio Bindi    Italy        22,000
Sebastian Till    Germany           21,300
Jose Maria Puertas Nieto    Spain           21,200
Marc Dötsch    Germany           21,000
Russell Carson    Canada        21,000
Andreas Sarling    Finland          16,000

[Pelham Boy]

Is Negreanu now calling for EPT buy-ins to be raised to $100,000 to get rid of these pesky internet qualifiers and amateurs?