Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen - Day 1A - Interactive

[danafish]

Hi,

can you post any pics of the high stakes scandis? Lodden, Thorsson, Kjondal, Riise etc?

Thanks

Yes yes, we're on the case. Lodden photo already posted, rest of them on their way if they're playing today. I'm back on with a veeery slow connection but Jen's is even slower, by the way, in case you're envisioning her slumped on a sofa in the lobby having a nap or something. She's not.

[danafish]

And to illustrate the rise of ElkY and the fall of Adamsen:

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Also Marcel Kloof, apparently trying to chloroform himself into folding his overpair:



And final assassin Mateyboy (anyone??). He's Number 1!:

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[Djinn]

What with no connection for most of the last level, I have saved up lots of interesting, if slightly outdated stories, which I am about to share with y'all.  But first, to show good faith in the connection coming back - the full counts from about 4 tables counted with my own blurry eyes during the break:

1201 etc  Table 32

Dennis Bjerregaard Jørensen -- 4,525
Karl-Johan Fösker -- 13,000
Tom Larsen -- 15,400
Michele Limongi -- 14,600
Thijs van Tilburg -- 7,550
Ole Andersen -- 10,650
Renee Schmidt -- 5,875
Alex Amarre -- 8,350
Karim Bennani Smires -- 4,750
Jarle Aasen -- 13,300

1901 etc. Table 39

Rasmus Hede Nielsen -- 14,200
Bruce Dacko -- 6,150
Mathias Andersen -- 17,475
Michael Aadal Olsen -- 12,600
Bengt Sonnert -- 7,200
Fuat Can -- 12,500
Thomas Askeland Østerholt -- 10,475
Stale Torsvik -- 6,700
Marcus Lind -- 4,625

2001 etc. Table 40

Stephan Kjerstad -- 13,000
Børge Dypvik -- 11,800
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 -
Viktor Wessman -- 14,150
Jaime Ponte -- 11,300
Danny Silk -- 11,625
Daniel Ryan -- 8,700
Steven Jacobs -- 9,000


2201 etc. Table 42

Carl Hostrup-Pedersen -- 2,000
Thor Hansen -- 11,600
David Hopkins -- 10,150
Casey Kastle -- 10,950
Lennart Nyström -- 11,000
Jose Pereira -- 6,300
Morten Klein -- 12,550
Piotr Paruszewski -- 14,700
Martin Wendt -- 9,100
Trond Erik Eidsvig -- 10,550

Please make special note of the Jaime Ponte chip count, as he said a certain blonde reader was prepared to bribe me with steak if I would keep updating on him.  There he is!  Medium-rare, please.

[danafish]

And for Junglecat -

I have yet to see anything that beats the headwear combo of Marcel Kloof and his neighbour Ricky Gervais Jesper Mertz:

[Djinn]

Juha Helppi, Finnish poker star and leading man in many of Mr. Eidsvig’s movies (dressed currently as Mr. Blue) is sitting opposite Johnny Lodden (last year’s Online Player of the Year).  They don’t appear too shy of getting involved in the early levels – surprise surprise – and just now Lodden bet out 450 from the small blind (where he’d called Helppi’s preflop raise) on a flop.  Stone-faced dwell; call.
Turn:   Now 1,350 the bet from Lodden, a sizeable chunk of the 10k stack really for the 50/100 level, and Helppi declines to call that time. 

[danafish]

For all our foreign readers, this is how true Englishmen like to relax:

[LLevan]

What with no connection for most of the last level, I have saved up lots of interesting, if slightly outdated stories, which I am about to share with y'all.  But first, to show good faith in the connection coming back - the full counts from about 4 tables counted with my own blurry eyes during the break:

1201 etc  Table 32

Dennis Bjerregaard Jørensen -- 4,525
Karl-Johan Fösker -- 13,000
Tom Larsen -- 15,400
Michele Limongi -- 14,600
Thijs van Tilburg -- 7,550
Ole Andersen -- 10,650
Renee Schmidt -- 5,875
Alex Amarre -- 8,350
Karim Bennani Smires -- 4,750
Jarle Aasen -- 13,300

1901 etc. Table 39

Rasmus Hede Nielsen -- 14,200
Bruce Dacko -- 6,150
Mathias Andersen -- 17,475
Michael Aadal Olsen -- 12,600
Bengt Sonnert -- 7,200
Fuat Can -- 12,500
Thomas Askeland Østerholt -- 10,475
Stale Torsvik -- 6,700
Marcus Lind -- 4,625

2001 etc. Table 40

Stephan Kjerstad -- 13,000
Børge Dypvik -- 11,800
 -
 -
Viktor Wessman -- 14,150
Jaime Ponte -- 11,300
Danny Silk -- 11,625
Daniel Ryan -- 8,700
Steven Jacobs -- 9,000


2201 etc. Table 42

Carl Hostrup-Pedersen -- 2,000
Thor Hansen -- 11,600
David Hopkins -- 10,150
Casey Kastle -- 10,950
Lennart Nyström -- 11,000
Jose Pereira -- 6,300
Morten Klein -- 12,550
Piotr Paruszewski -- 14,700
Martin Wendt -- 9,100
Trond Erik Eidsvig -- 10,550

Please make special note of the Jaime Ponte chip count, as he said a certain blonde reader was prepared to bribe me with steak if I would keep updating on him.  There he is!  Medium-rare, please.

No I aint about to bribe you Jen but nice to see Jaime aka Festival1 back playing in a big event...........please pass on my good luck wishes and hopefully I dont bok him.........I did pick the orange fruity 1 on day 2 of the GUKPT last week so maybe boks are out lol.

[Djinn]

Per Hansen (pictured) won a pretty nice pot early doors with the old river check-raise.  The board was standing when I moseyed over to the table.  The pot looked to be around 2k and it was checked to Thomas Christiansen, who bet three blue 1k chips.  Pretty quickly he was facing an all-in check-raise for another 3k (just under) from his opponent.  He made a pain face for a good minute or two, before eventually thinking better of it and passing, leaving himself around 5k.  Fingers in the river-flavoured cookie-jar, perhaps - or genuine dilemma..?

[Djinn]

Please make special note of the Jaime Ponte chip count, as he said a certain blonde reader was prepared to bribe me with steak if I would keep updating on him.  There he is!  Medium-rare, please.

No I aint about to bribe you Jen but nice to see Jaime aka Festival1 back playing in a big event...........please pass on my good luck wishes and hopefully I dont bok him.........I did pick the orange fruity 1 on day 2 of the GUKPT last week so maybe boks are out lol.
[/quote]

Right well, not you then... but someone somewhere - I think his surname rhymes with 'steak' actually...

BRITWATCH:

I believe top photo'd sir is Terry Cook...




While here's Festival1 enjoying this here festival:

[AndrewT]

You think no one can see you there, hiding at the back, but the camera misses nothing.

[Micko]

Is Michael Greco not a sponsored DTD player anymore?

[goldfoxdom]

Is Michael Greco not a sponsored dtd player anymore?

no DTD dropped there sponsers when the club opened

[Djinn]

STAREWATCH

Mel Judah - Are You Looking At Him?



Barny Boatman - Actually Looking At Him



Jonas Molander - Not enough coffee



Jason Laso - Too much coffee (plus bonus sub-pic Hair of the Day Dennis Naci Hansen in seat One)

[T8MML]

Please make special note of the Jaime Ponte chip count, as he said a certain blonde reader was prepared to bribe me with steak if I would keep updating on him.  There he is!  Medium-rare, please.

No I aint about to bribe you Jen but nice to see Jaime aka Festival1 back playing in a big event...........please pass on my good luck wishes and hopefully I dont bok him.........I did pick the orange fruity 1 on day 2 of the GUKPT last week so maybe boks are out lol.

Right well, not you then... but someone somewhere - I think his surname rhymes with 'steak' actually...

BRITWATCH:

I believe top photo'd sir is Terry Cook...




While here's Festival1 enjoying this here festival:


[/quote]Rhymes with steak and just as big and beefy darlink!!! Gl to the Festival1 but jeez what happened to the hair mate?? Too many years of tearing it out supporting the hoops me thinks or I you modelling yourself on another top player wink wink nudge nudge

[danafish]

Gus Hansen has arrived, some time between the start of the tournament and me wandering by his table just a little while ago...

Anyway, he's seated next to Barny Boatman, right next to the rail, and there's a crowd now constantly lurking by their table, like so:



I caught the end of a hand between the two of them. The board read and they both checked it (I understand there had been some betting on the flop, during which the crowd got a little bigger). The river comes and Barny bets 300. "That wasn't very much," says Hansen. "It's about what this hand's worth," says Barny. Gus raises to 1275 and Barny calls, but mucks when Gus shows the . The crowd remains, probably hoping they'll do something funny. They don't. They're laughing about it anyway.