Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen - Day 1A - At A Glance

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DINNER BREAK is 45 minutes and is now.

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They're not doing that count-it-all-for-you thing today, so we're going to band together with blogging's elite (OK, just Mike, Change100 and maybe Benjo) and count the full whack during these 45 minutes.  Lucky you.

I leave you with the Painful River of the Day:

Ole Andersen gets his shortish stack in with against .  Voila the ... ... ... ...            .  And Exit, stage left.

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I'm afraid it looks like no chip counts for us this dinnertime, as we're not allowed in the room currently. Mr Kremser told Jen we would be allowed, but he's wandered off somewhere. Hopefully we will find him, but until then, feel free to post imaginary chip counts if you so wish...

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Some approximate chipcounts of people I recognise:

Sidsel Boesen - 20k
Adam Clark - 9k
Trond Eidsvig - 10k
Michael Greco - 2.2k or so; he was trying to move in from the big blind with AQ when I took his count, but it was really obvious he was going to do that and he got a walk instead
Gus Hansen - 20k
Barny Boatman - 16k
Julian Thew - 4.5k, but this represents some excellent grindy recovery, it's way up from the 2.5k or so it looked like he was down to before
Andreas Hoivold - 4.3k
Thierry Van Der Berg - 8k
Jonas Molander - 9.5k

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And a few more:

Danny Ryan - 13,900
Daniel Negreanu - 25,000
Bill Chen - 18,500
Alexander Kravchenko - 26,000
Jason Laso - 9,500
Thor Hansen - 10,350
Claus Nielsen - 15,000
Jesper Hougaard - 32,000
Reijo Manninen - 13,850
Camilla Denning - 30,000
Martin Nielsen - 10,350

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BREAKING NEWS WHICH I KNOW BECAUSE Mike Lacey TOLD ME:

Julian doubled up with AA v TT - he's back up to 11k or so.

OTHER BREAKING NEWS:

Michael Greco failed to build on his microstack, and is OUT.

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Andreas Hoivold's stack enters the danger zone after a bad turn against Jens Hansen.  He check-called on the turn when the board read , with about 4k in the pot already, and then checked the river, too.  1,500 slowly bet and instacalled by Hoivold - who showed which had started off in bad shape, become so good and ended up so bad against Jensen's .

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Barny Boatman has taken a juicy ol' pot off of young Tobias Holmeide.

Didn't catch the pre/flop action, but Barny bets 2.5k on the turn of the board and Holmeide calls. They both check the spadetastic river, and Barny's flush remains good - Holmeide was drawing dead on the turn with .

Rock on the Boat, man, or don't knock the Boatman, or something similarly tenuous as far as puns go. Sorry. I have a cold.

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RELATIVELY BIG STACKWATCH

Alex Kravchenko
Dennis Naci Hansen
Trond Eidsvig
Peter Eastgate

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Julian is yo-yoing about all over the place, last I checked he had around 6k.

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Dutchman Leroy Soesman moves in to a raise, making Peter Petersen (Danish names are awesome) lay down pocket Nines face up. Gus Hansen is making some noises, and Petersen says to him, "Would you call with my hand?" Says Gus: "I call with anything..."

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Fairly eye-watering exit for Danny Silk just now, as Ola Brandborn, more comfortably stacked than his opponent, made a pressure-y move after they saw a flop of and Silk bet out 4,000 (leaving himself what looked like about 10k).  Brandborn signified ‘all-in’ and left his opponent a Bet for his Tournament Life (or B.L.T. as I am going to try to get it known).  He called, eventually, showing .  Brandborn flipped the for a called bluff and watched as the turn brought the but the river… the .  That’s twice that exact card has popped out on the river to bust someone in fairly unfortunate circumstances. 

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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.

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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.

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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.