Pokerstars.com EPT Copenhagen Day 1b - Interactive

[danafish]

Stuart Rutter, yo-yoing about all over the place, is in a much better mood now that he has doubled up to 29k, not least because he had Aces and it could so easily have gone terribly wrong.

He flat-called a raise to 1200, but there was another caller, and he was a-feared come the K-J-6, two-hearts flop. The original raiser bet 1800 and The Rutter raised to 3800, and then called the all-in. Original Raiser had .

"It's the first all in I've won in donkeys' years!" he enthuses.

[danafish]

Here is the happy couple, just before Micke yawned and put his arm around Nicolas:

[Djinn]

Ramzi Jelassi has just been moved two to the left of Markus Golser (does Mr. Golser ever not build a good stack in these events?) who has 55k which makes his 30k look less good.  He sat down and received his first hand utg+1.  He raised (here we go, the table may sigh) to 1,025, called by Livio Foianesi and big blind Golser.
Flop:    Check to Ramzi who makes it 2,500.  Pass back but not further than Markus who promptly makes it 6,500.  "Are you sure?" asks Ramzi, "It's my first hand..." then says, "It's winning," and folds what looked like a raggy suited Ace face-up.  "You wouldn't like it if I made it 15k..." he tries, but Markus is giving away absolutely nothing. 
 

[danafish]

Nicolaj Linneballe, in the suit in the photo, has doubled up his 3.8k microstack. He shoved with utg and big blind Christian Grundtvig, not in the suit in the photo, called with .

Board - a decidedly un-Jack-filled

[danafish]

Steven "all in stevie" Devlin has doubled up, moving in on the turn of a board and finding a caller in Kenneth Gregersen.

I know Devlin has a monster, because he does not give me the evil eye as I take a photo of him while he is all in (a kind of blogger's tell). He flips over . Gregersen makes a sad noise, and flips over the ; he is informed that he must show his other card too, and it is the inconsequential seeing as he's drawing dead .

Click to see full-size image.

UPDATE - actually he's OUT now, apparently hurling himself into Ramzi Jelassi's Aces. Oops.

[Djinn]

Arnaud Mattern appears to be wearing earplugs.  Perhaps they are some defence against Peter Hedlund, who has attracted some camera guys like large flies to, er, an unexpectedly garrulous Swede.  "Now it's the feature table!" announced Hedlund, before proclaiming: "The Dutch are really good at making beers.  And football." 

[danafish]

A defiantly-staring Mike McDonald - about 20k.

[danafish]

I cannot think of a plausible excuse to post this photo. I'm posting it anyway. Gentlemen, enjoy.

Click to see full-size image.

[Laxie]

She looks absolutely THRILLED to be there   

[Djinn]

Here pictured is Stu rutter, next to online qualifier, and...wait for it... UK player Nick Mazur!  I don't know if Mr. Mazur is still in but if his form has gone the way of Stuart's he will have built an OK stack, lost a race, played some risky Aces and built up to 30k.

[TheHotel]

Here pictured is Stu rutter, next to online qualifier, and...wait for it... UK player Nick Mazur!  I don't know if Mr. Mazur is still in but if his form has gone the way of Stuart's he will have built an OK stack, lost a race, played some risky Aces and built up to 30k.

and casually placed a dead phone to make the chip stack look even bigger

[danafish]

Um, yes, obviously as soon as we find a UK player he promptly exits. One day someone's going to sue us for cursing them or something.

Anyway, I believe what happened was that Nick Mazur raised some preflop and then Stig Farholt re-raised to 5k or so (missed the very early stages of the hand, so I sort of pieced that back together with my Awesome Powers Of Deduction). Nick called.

Flop - and Farholt says, "How much you have?" They end up with Nick all in. He has . Stig Farholt has . No Queen, and he's OUT. I take a heartless photo of him as it's sinking in, before he's even stood up to leave. Sorry, Mr Mazur.

Click to see full-size image.

[jpean]

Um, yes, obviously as soon as we find a UK player he promptly exits. One day someone's going to sue us for cursing them or something.

We have give you our curse of yesterday...

[danafish]

Um, yes, the Rutter Rollercoaster also continues. He's down to 12k again, after finding himself on the losing end of a QQ v AK race, an Ace on the turn. He is becoming hysterical.

Click to see full-size image.

[danafish]

The clock has been stopped, and they're playing the last apparently-randomly-generated-number-of-hands of the day. Today that number is seven. I shall continue to report stuff that happened before that while Jen watches those last seven hands.