Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen - Day 1A - Interactive

[NoflopsHomer]

Sigh, can't even get 2nd place in Name that Player...

[danafish]

Oh. Everybody knew that except me.

Well, I found out that Tea Man was Ola (Ola!) Brandborn via my own sources (Mike Lacey again), and I can tell you that he is indeed chip leader. Looks like he has over 80k since he took out that young gent. Not that way.

[danafish]

Daniel Negreanu must have moved table like a dozen times. Every time I go in there he's somewhere else. Currently he's seated next to super-shortstack (3 or 4k) Noah Boeken:

[ariston]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ruftiuksXfg


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[danafish]

UK hope Andreas Hoivold is back up to 12k or so. Other UK hope Barny Boatman wandered into the press room during the break and told us that when the cultures of Scandinavia and Sunderland clash, motocross is usually to blame. ()

[Djinn]

More chip counts, as pot after pot seems to be taken by some of the big stacks (as featured on Dana's Relatively Big Stackwatch) either with preflop re-aggression or on the flop. 

Viktor Wessman - 51,500
Alexander Kravchenko - 22,600
Bill Chen - 19,000
Barny Boatman - 15,000
Trond Eidsvig - 45,000
Dennis Naci Hansen - 35,000
Mathias Andersen - 54,600

Overheard:  A sentence involving the phrase 'super delegates' from Negreanu who's been moved to Noah Boeken's left and enjoying chatting with the loquacious table...

Surprisingly quiet:  Gus Hansen.  Also Dario Minieri, Nikolas Jedlicka, Christian Harder, and Juha Helppi, but that's because they all appear to be OUT.

[Djinn]

Sigh, can't even get 2nd place in Name that Player...

Ahahahahaha

[danafish]

Another Relatively Big Stack is the dude in the white hoodie and interesting combover-type do below (perhaps somebody will know his name, seeing as how like EVERYONE pipped me to the post last time  ).

He just won a pot that looked to be about 25 or 30k, betting 5k on the river of the board and staring fixedly at the felt until Jarle Aasen folded.

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[danafish]

Especially for inspironB120, Mr Jason Laso, un-blurry and smiling. He's on around 8k.

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[danafish]

By the way, the clock says there's a 600 minute break after the next level, so we're assuming that means play will end for the night at that point. Although 600 minutes would mean a 9.30am start for us tomorrow. Hmm. Something's not right about that. Anyway, we think they will stop after level 8.

[danafish]

This gentleman, the very picture of meticulousness-osity (a real word), is one Tommy Hansen, a floor manager for the WSOP. To me, the suit-and-chipstacking combo scream OCD. Everyone says he's really nice.

[danafish]

NORKWATCH again

Note the stiletto/legwarmer combo

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[danafish]

Julian has moved tables: "Thank God for that," says he, on around 7k. "I got a bit unlucky, but I played a few pots really badly."

He was briefly on Table Boeken/Negreanu, but had disappeared a few minutes later when I wandered by. I'd written up that he'd busted out before Mike told me that he'd been moved a second time.

[danafish]

Bill Chen has doubled up courtesy of Alex Kravchenko.

With a fair few chips in the pot before the flop, Kravchenko announces all in immediately the come out. Bill Chen seems to mis-hear and Kravchenko has to repeat himself, rather diminishing the effect of Chen's insta-call.

Kravchenko - 
Chen - 

Turn -
River -

[Djinn]

This guy is actually out - Thierry van der Berg, a popular shortstack who found precisely the wrong time to re-raise all in from the small blind with when Trond Eidsvig raised (again) on the cutoff, as this time he actually held .  One eight-free board later and he hit the rail - actually didn't even make it that far before blurrily pictured lady had him presumably telling the camera how it felt to have just busted....