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

[danafish]

Welcome back for Day 1b at the Copenhagen Casino! I have a head cold and am currently situated under a duvet at the Comfort Hotel, drinking one of those funny water-soluble orange-flavoured vitamin cocktails and waiting for Jen to bring me coffee from the lobby, but come 2pm we will be all bright and chirpy down at the Radisson, ready to update levels 1 through 8 in a weird Groundhog Day kind of way.

Familiar faces expected today include the Rutter, Andy Black, Roy Brindley, Liam Flood, Marc Goodwin, Tony G, Jeff The Jaffacake Kimber, Steve Jelinek; in fact, all of the people in this here list which Taximan alphabetized for us, thanks very much.

 Bjørn Agertved
 Gino Alacqua   
 Alaa Al-Chani
 Fahid Ali
 Alfonso Amendola
 Anders Andersen
 Mads Andersen
 Patrik Andersson
 Daniluk Andrey
 Martin Skovgaard Anersen
 Roger Archtander     
 Marcel Baran
 Anders Berg
 Remy Biechel
 Thomas Billum
 Brian Bischoff       
 Andy Black
 Cristiano Blanco
 Erik Bodén   
 Deniz Bozgeyik
 Peter Bregnhøj
 Roy Brindley
 Tomas Brolin
 Patrick Bueno
 Ole Busborg
 Vincent Clark Byrd
 Sigurð Carlsson           
 Russell Carson   
 Janno Cazemier   
 Paul Christoffersson
 Charlie Ciresi           
 Jonathan Cirilli
 Darin Cook
 Magnus Cornmark
 Kuremszki Csaba         
 Thomas Dahlgren     
 Richard Dalberg
 Peter Davidsen
 Nicholas Dervaux
 Stephen Devlin
 John Donnelly
 Simon Dørslund
 Rasmus Edenfall
 Martin El-Kher
 Alexander Ellinsen
 Andreas Elofsson
 Michael Eriksen
 Anders Gustav Eriksson     
 Michael Eriksson   
 Sigurd Eskeland
 Stig Farholt
 David Figueroa
 Liam Flood
 Livion Foianesi
 Steve Frezer
 Erik Friberg
 Charles Furey
 Rasmus Gandrup
 Hristo Genov   
 Stephane Gerin
 Jogvan K. Glerfoss
 Markus Golser
 Marc Goodwin   
 Tony G Gouga       
 Josh Gould
 Rune Granath   
 Henning Granstad
 Kenneth Gregersen
 Tom De Groot
 Christian Grundtvig
 Henrik Gwinner   
 Ed de Haas
 Casper Dahl Hansen   
 Lars Hansen
 Magnus Hansen     
 Scott Harwood
 Kristian Hasløv   
 Will Haughey
 Peter Hedlund
 Jonas Helness
 Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen
 Peter Hendriks   
 Kenneth Hessellund
 Sándor Hollaar   
 Rob Hollink
 Morten Holm   
 Thomas Holm
 Uffe Holm
 Tung Huynh   
 Frank Gersby Jacobsen
 Henning Jakobsen
 Joris Jaspers
 Ramzi Jelassi
 Steve Jelinek
 Johnny Jensen     
 Søren Jensen
 Peter Willers Jepsen   
 Timmi Jofur
 Roger Johannessen   
 Karsten Johansen
 Mikael Johansson
 Theo Jørgensen
 Jacob Juhl
 Jogi Karamishi         
 Bulent Karsli
 Matt Kay
 Sami Kelopuro   
 Jeff Kimber
 Frei Dilling Kjær
 Søren Kongsgaard   
 Johannes Korsar   
 Rene kovacs
 Torben Hübertz Knudsen
 Tomasz Krzesiñski   
 Olli Kurvinen
 Raymond Landaas
 Richard Larsen
 Christer Laudius
 Jakob Vedel Lauridsen
 Trevor Lawson
 Jonas Lennartsson
 Sven Leu
 Nicolas Levi
 Norman Levitt   
 Nicolaj Linneballe
 Brian Linnet   
 Per Loeff
 Richard Løth
 Jens Lübbe
 Johan Lund
 Sean Lund
 Jan Walther Lund   
 Jon Lundberg
 Stephan Ma             
 Lars Hoe Madsen
 Vegard Mandal
 Michael Marek   
 Thomas Markussen
 Jonas Mathiasen
 Arnaud Mattern
 Per Lennart Stefan Matts       
 Nick Mazur
 Mike McDonald
 Tom McEvoy
 Said El Mekki
 Dustin Mele   
 Erlend Melsom   
 Jyri Merivirta
 Mikkel Middelbo
 Mihai Mika   
 Kyriakides Miltiadis
 Carlo Misuraca   
 Arild Moldøy
 Steen Møller   
 Bernd Monsma
 Bent Mortensen
 Ståle Mortensson
 Rene Mouritsen     
 Nedin Musa
 Miikka Samuli Mustonen
 Matthias Neu
 Jens Laurbjerg Nielsen
 Toke Nielsen
 Dario Nittolo   
 Micke Norinder
 Rigo Nyfjeld
 Erik Olsen
 Jan Rune Olsen
 Kim Olsen
 Luca Pagano
 Rifat Palevic
 Marcus Palm
 Seppo Parkkinen
 Dan Bitsch Pedersen
 Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen
 Kristian Pedersen         
 Rehne Pedersen
 Pascal Perrault
 Alexander Petersen
 Mika Puro   
 Antti Pystynen
 Gunnar Rabe
 Anders Rasmussen
 Pernille Ravn
 Simon Ravnsbaek
 Lasse Rimmer   
 Giacomo Rosa
 Sasha Rosewood
 Henrik Rune
 Stuart Rutter
 Sargon Ruya
 Nichlas Saarisilta
 Ibrahim Sacrista
 Ilari Sahamies
 Luoto Sakari
 Sonny Sareen
 Andreas Sarling
 Michael Schulze
 Ryan Segelke     
 Jan Olav Sjåvik   
 Almira Skripchenko   
 Rolf Slotsboom   
 Henrik Lotto Sørensen
 Jan Sørensen
 Haward Speer     
 Anthony Spinella
 Robert Stain   
 Johan Storåkers   
 Ljubomir Stosic
 Johannes Strassmann
 Nedzib Suman
 Trond Sundby
 Halldor Sverrisson   
 Kjetil Tellefsen   
 Paul Testud
 Katja Thater
 William Thorson
 Kristian Tolvhed
 Richard Toth
 Michael Tureniec   
 Claus Valloe
 Timothy Vance
 Erik Veld     
 Nicola Voss
 Aron Wallden                             
 Roland De Wolfe
 Ismail Yilmaz
 Sebastian Zink

My three picks are Kristian Pedersen, Frederik Hostrup-Pedersen, and Dan Bitsch Pedersen. See you all at 2 o'clock...

[danafish]

And the cards have indeed made it into the air and probably back down to the felt already by now. We're off to find some entertaining stories...

[Djinn]

How about another selection of some interesting looking tables? 

Katja Thater
Peter Hendriks
Søren Kongsgaard
Cristiano Blanco
Almira Skripchenko
Johannes Korsar
Joris Jaspers
Haward Speer
Stuart Rutter


Bjørn Agertved
Jens Laurbjerg Nielsen
Jonathan Cirilli
William Thorson
Nicolas Levi
Micke Norinder
Paul Testud
Miikka Samuli Mustonen
Rifat Palevic
Tony G Gouga


Plus all the excitement of a combined Andy Black, Roland de Wolfe, Marc Goodwin, Jeff Kimber and Liam Flood, making today nearly 65% more UK-tastic.

[danafish]

Yes indeedy, hoodie of the day is very special and will be with you shortly, it's just a-loading right now.

In the meantime, BRITWATCH and we're down a man already.

Somehow finding himself down to 1200, Marc Goodwin shoved to a raise from the below gentleman, one Uffe Holm of Denmark. Mr Holm apparently lost some sort of wager, and as a result will be known for the rest of this EPT as Elephant Man. Hard luck, Mr Holm. But also hard luck Mr Goodwin - racing his pocket Sixes against Elephant Man's K-J, a King on the flop meant that raising with K-J offsuit and subsequently calling the shove paid off for Elephant Man. Tusk, tusk.

Sorry, ivory'll bad headache now.

[danafish]

BREAKTIME CHIP COUNTS

Just a few, mind.

Steve Jelinek - 7,300
Josh Gould - 10,000 on the nose
Elephant Man - just 2,875 somehow, in spite of knocking out Marc Goodwin
Jan Sjavik - 10,400
Arnaud Mattern - 5,125
Jeff Kimber - 17,200
Roy Brindley - 3,050
Tony G - apparently OUT

[Djinn]

This gent, awesomely named Charles Furey like out of a 70's punk band (Dana thought Porn Star/Action Hero) is your early chip leader with almost 30,000.  That's pretty good going.  Honestly this photo represents the largest proportion of his face I could snap as he seems to spend most of his time looking downwards intensely.  Pretty cool Escher-y hoody too - but you can't win more than one blonde title per day, it just wouldn't be fair.



Other counts:

Table Kimber

Nicholas Dervaux - 18,400
Kenneth Raun Hemmingsen - 975
Nedzib Suman - 5,300
Gunnar Rabe - 12,000
Jeff Kimber - 17,000
Christian Grundtvig - 8,100
Patrik Andersson - 15,200
Peter Bregnhøj - 10,200
Said El Mekki - 5,225
Erlend Melsom - 9,225

Table Extra UK player - Mr. Trevor Lawson!

Hristo Genov - 12,000
Bernd Monsma - 10,250
Peter Davidsen - 11,550
Sebastian Zink - MOVED/OUT
Jan Walther Lund - OUT
Roger Archtander - 7,450
Mike McDonald - 11,000
Trond Sundby - 9,500
Ståle Mortensson - 15,500
Ole Busborg - 13,800
Trevor Lawson - 10,100

Table I might have got these counts out by one place, sorry... Seats 8-10 definitely right though

Katja Thater - OUT/MOVED
Peter Hendriks - 10,700
Søren Kongsgaard - 4,500
Cristiano Blanco - ??
Almira Skripchenko - 12,000
Johannes Korsar - 8,300
Joris Jaspers - 11,150
Haward Speer - 13,700
Stuart Rutter - 11,000

[Djinn]

OK how about a hand? 

None other than Tom McEvoy is involved here - for those that don't recognise him he's the distinguished-looking white haired gentleman on the leftish of this picture, sporting Team Pokerstars gear today.

He re-raised preflop on the button to 1,000 after Nedin Musa had initially shown interest... but when it got back to Musa he upped it to 3,000.  A pretty swift call from McEvoy later and they were looking at a flop of .  Musa bet out 5k and McEvoy passed sharpish.  Then Peter Hedlund - the blurry guy in blue - resumed talking (he'd briefly paused during the hand and to drink some beer) saying, "I should have pushed!  Flopped a set!"  before continuing to drink beer and talk a lot. 



Arnaud Mattern is also on that table in seat 5 (you can just make out an ear and a bit of brown T-shirt) so I've added a pic of him for no particular reason.  Musa is the guy on the left, here though.

[danafish]

I have to say, it's a bit slooooow and a bit not much fuuuuuunnn out there. By which I don't mean everyone's in a terrible mood and there's a bad atmosphere. Everybody seems fairly content. It's just, nobody seems to be talking, or otherwise interacting, or having a good time. Take this hand from Table Rutter, for example.

There's a flop -

Joris Jaspers doesn't do anything for a little while. Nobody speaks. Then he bets 1000.

There's a pause. Not a pregnant pause, more a pause of polite contemplation. Then Cristiano Blanco raises to 2200.

Everyone looks at the felt. Then, after a decent interval, Johannes Korsar calls. Eventually Joris Jaspers passes.

The dealer waits until he's absolutely certain that everyone has acted, and then deals the turn. Both remaining players ponder this for a moment, and then check.

Now the dealer carefully places the river in its proper place next to the turn card. Blanco thinks about it. He checks. Korsar is now not sure what to do. He considers his next move, in silence. Everyone waits patiently. Finally, he decides his move. He bets 2500.

Now the action is on Blanco again. He doesn't know what to do. He looks down at the felt. He licks his lips, and apparently counts to somewhere in the region of 40 or 50 before he acts. He silently passes.

GAHHHHH!

By the way, the Rutter has a dirty stack.

But he assures me that he has 11.5k, and is happy.

[Djinn]

French Counts:

Arnaud Mattern - 4,525
Renaud of Dammartin (aka Raynald I)- no show
Paul Testud - 8,600
Nicolas Levi - 27,000 He seems to have taken all of France's luck today and spun it into some nice chip towers (I especially like his hoard of green 25 chips).

Here pictured are the four middle seats on what looks to be a pretty tough table: William Thorson, Nicolas, Mikke Norinder and Paul Testud.

[danafish]

Of course, there is the exception that proves every rule, and that exception is Table Levi/Norinder/Testud.

Nicolas Levi raises in early position, and Micke Norinder calls. Levi eyes him up. "I have the distinct feeling that you like me," he says. "I do like you, man," says Micke, but neither of them seem to want to get more involved than that at this stage. Paul Testud also calls, and so does Bjorn Agertved.

Flop -

Nicolas bets 1200. Micke, probably because he likes him, calls. Paul Testud gets out of the way. Now Agertved dwells, boringly. Oh no, think I, it's going to be like every other hand I've watched, where everyone dwells for ages and nothing at all happens at the end of it. Then Agertved goes all in for 6325 total. Oh ok, think I, everyone's going to fold now. Now Nicolas Levi goes all in too, for loads!

Now Nicolas' new friend Micke lets out this kind of weird guttural groany scream like probably the sound that Vikings used to make when they were just about to rape or pillage. "WUUEEOOOOOEEUUUUUURRRRRR! That was my move!" says he. He thinks about it quite seriously for a moment, but gets out of the way.

Levi - obviously, what with that early position raise and everything
Agertved -

Turn -
River -

Agertved is OUT. So there you go. Who'd've thunk it.

[danafish]

Young Swede Ramzi Jelassi was down to around 5 or 6k last I checked.

[Djinn]

Roy Brindley, pictured here somewhat depressed after sinking to just 4k at the break, might be in a better mood now having doubled up with on a Q-J-xxx board against Pascal Perrault's A-Q.  As it was he said it was a good thing I was taking his picture as he might be out any minute etc. etc. before describing the last fifteen minutes of play before the break as 'torture.' 



Oh, sorry - Marc just told us that his brief resurgence in chips is over and he's now OUT - Ski-outfitted Rolf Slotboom his assassin, mainly.

[danafish]

By the way, a few bits and pieces we established before the Betfair conference...

Andy Black was up to 13k, but ran his pocket Kings into a neighbour's Mighty 6-7 Offsuit and is long gone.

Steve Jelinek is no longer in his seat, and seeing as his orange t-shirt is nowhere to be seen, we're assuming he's gone.

Big stacks include one Roger Johannessen.

[danafish]

Just bumped into Stuart Rutter, who tells me that he's been having a pretty good time of it and is up to 23k.

[danafish]

The below gent, who reminds me a bit of Bill Bailey but is in fact called Luoto Sakari and is an online qualifier, doubled up courtesy of the gent below him whose name I don't know.

Sakari - 
Mateyboy -

All in on the flop of a board.