Pokerstars.com EPT Warsaw: Day 2 - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Having made the strenuous decision to try and get out of bed and get breakfast at our hotel, I found out that they don't serve breakfast after 10.30am. I really feel the universally accepted system of when meals are is designed to make people in the updating field miserable.

Nevermind though, here's the full seating plan for todays remaining 130 players.

Juan Manuel Pastor   1   1   25700
Kenneth Matsson   1   2   32200
Sebastian Ruthenberg   1   3   45100
Henrik Gwinner   1   4   48500
Thierry Van Der Berg   1   5   19900
Theo Jorgensen   1   6   50300
Kosta Anastasyadi   1   7   16700
Johan Lund   1   8   24000
Keith Donais   2   1   76200
Łukasz Wasek   2   2   13500
Joao Manuel Nunes   2   3   9100
Janusz Petlic   2   4   18300
Jean Claude Perrot   2   5   50100
Brian Jensen   2   6   24300
Fredrik Haugen   2   7   36800
David Robinson   2   8   55800
Craig Hopkins   2   9   15000
Trond Erik Eidsvig   3   1   34400
Daniel Mangas   3   2   17900
Dennis Petronack   3   3   48100
Mark Hirleman   3   4   17200
Christos Kravaritis   3   5   21600
Mads Andersen   3   6   22900
Mohamed-Azam Razab-Sekh   3   7   22800
Johnny Lodden   3   8   6000
William Olivieri   3   9   8000
Cameron Macmillan   4   1   20100
Joao Quintella Teixeira De Freitas   4   2   22200
Hecham El Sayed   4   3   66700
Torgeir Husevaag   4   4   16600
Juan Lapido   4   5   29600
Cristiano Blanco   4   6   28800
Ilja Smid   4   7   26200
Mike Leah   4   8   9900
Christoffer Egemo Hansen   4   9   23700
Joel Gunnarsson   5   1   13800
John Gibson   5   2   3900
Elizabeth Lieu   5   3   9100
Daniel Carter   5   4   20800
Jacek Ładny   5   5   22500
David Burn   5   6   41700
Gino Alacqua   5   7   8000
Mats Rahm   5   8   24000
James Honeybone   5   9   38700
Remy Biechel   6   1   14000
Andy Black   6   2   42400
Julien Boue   6   3   18800
Antonio Gomez Ribera   6   4   23800
Nikolaj Fabricius   6   5   15400
Darcourt Guillaume   6   6   33600
Jan Stefan Smolarczyk   6   7   2600
Miika Karjalainen   6   8   26100
Raul Paez Corral   6   9   18200
Jurgen Stumpmeier   7   1   25000
Anton Smolyanskiy   7   2   35800
Jari-Pekka Juhola   7   3   34400
Daniel Woolson   7   4   18400
Ulrica Skönnemark   7   5   24900
Michael Schulze   7   6   87900
Daniel Ryan   7   7   19800
Sami Leino   7   8   6300
Claus Nielsen   7   9   18000
Piergiorgio D'ancona   8   1   13100
Leszek Krawczyński   8   2   27100
Tomasz Krzesiński   8   3   18000
Seppo Parkkinen   8   4   25900
Eugeniusz Licznarowski   8   5   6900
Kostadin Anakiev   8   6   20900
Aleksandr Gorelik   8   7   27200
Nikolas Avlonitis   8   8   14300
Jorund Soma   8   9   14700
Robert Flink   9   1   113300
Mathias Viberg   9   2   11300
Derek Montgomery   9   3   26600
Bernard Boutboul   9   4   37000
Henrik Lennholm   9   5   10300
Willian Johnson   9   6   40900
Jean François Rigollet   9   7   26600
Alp Okumus   9   8   62100
Christoffer Sonesson   9   9   39800
Andreas Torbergsen   10   1   53000
Kai Leurer   10   2   8600
Mehdi Ouakhir   10   3   40700
Patrick Arba   10   4   11500
Woody Deck   10   5   29700
Giuseppe Caciolo   10   6   36600
Andrea Benelli   10   7   35700
Marc Goodwin   10   8   18700
Casey Kastle   10   9   17200
Ricardo Sousa   11   1   29200
Blair Smith   11   2   18100
Victor Escudero   11   3   39100
Johan Storakers   11   4   24800
Michael Hogbom   11   5   34400
Jose Picazo   11   6   18400
Antti Ropponen   11   7   16900
Daniel Hofmeister   11   8   51900
Morten Holm   11   9   15300
Taras Mikulik   12   1   34400
Anio Alcaraz   12   2   78000
Dino Dinler   12   3   18300
Steve Bromley   12   4   25100
Alon Mizrahi   12   5   27500
Niclas Svensson   12   6   27800
Dennis Bejedal   12   7   33900
Dan B. Pedersen   12   8   98500
Christian Öman   14   1   15700
Hans Ritburg   14   2   17500
Hans Eskilsson   14   3   21100
Risto Ailamo   14   4   23900
Julian Thew   14   5   8900
Jospeh Serock   14   6   55000
Andreas Hagen   14   7   35100
Nico Behling   14   8   24500
Stephan Thiele-Bolivar   17   1   10500
Stewart Chantler   17   2   18300
Magnus Petersson   17   3   30100
Roberto Nateri   17   4   32500
Rowad Hadrous   17   5   24900
Kim Öfverström   17   6   15500
Marek Piecha   17   7   8700
Melvyn Judah   17   8   15500
Kenneth Hicks Jr.   19   1   41200
Antonio Battisti   19   2   32900
Jeffrey Petronack   19   3   21700
Mirko Kirner   19   4   6700
Azem Elezaj   19   5   29200
René Gisbertz   19   6   5200
Tyler Netter   19   7   42600
Robert Lipkin   19   8   28800

Let us know who your picks are on the Interactive thread: http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=31958.new#new

[NoflopsHomer]

Thewy is OUT in the first hand, "It was always going to be an uphill struggle."

He pushed with K-5 from the cut-off but Andreas Hagen found A-K in the small blind.

[Djinn]

All-in short stacks all over the room are taking their shots and holding their collective breath, some doubling up, some adding to the rich's riches...

Kai Leurer makes a stand preflop for 8,400 and finds a caller in Marc Goodwin.  But Leurer's is ahead of Mr. Cool's and stays so, knocking him back to the point where the very next hand he's the one shoving pre...  Down to 10,000 or so but still in.
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Likewise David Robinson doubled up Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins, who shoved it all in (13,200) over the top of his RHS neighbour's preflop raise to 2,400.  He got called pretty speedily with and found his in a tournament-life race...
Flop:    Already pretty good for Hopkins
Turn:   Better
River:  Better still.

[Djinn]

Amongst all these doubler uppers, we lose short stack Mike Leah, who was called all-in preflop by Hecham El Sayed.
"I hope you have K-J..." remarked Leah, flipping .
"Two Kings," deadpanned El Sayed, showing .
By the turn the board was paired, and Leah was hoping for the second pair over the Fours making his kicker spring to life, but it was not to be.  He wished Liz Lieu good luck and headed for the rail.

[Djinn]

Niclas Svensson (pictured) rakes in a lake of chips as he gets a threeway pot in which his flopped set of Threes bide their time until an Ace on the turn makes the other guys two pair each (A7 and A3 their hands).  The betting goes nuts and this happy stacker is the result.  Note blogger/secret service agent talking to earpiece in background.

[NoflopsHomer]

Johnny Lodden has hit at least one double up already, he's up to about 16k now.

Liz Lieu is out, reshoving with against the button, who held Queens.

James Honeybone has knocked out Joel Gunnarsson with against er... AIPF, the board a harmless .

Seppo (Wasn't he one of the Marx Brothers?) Parkkinen just knocked out both Kostadin Anakiev and Nikolas Avlonitis with vs vs on a

[NoflopsHomer]

Christos Kravaritis has knocked out former Copenhagen winner Mads Andersen and crippled Johnny Lodden in the process. Kravaritis button raised, Andersen pushed and Lodden pushed behind, Kravaritis didn't have enough chips himself to fold and made the call with A-Q, finding himself live against Andersen's 9-9 and Lodden's 7-7.

A was great from a non-Scandie viewpoint leaving Lodden with just 2k. He's since gone out.

Journalist, last year's Dortmund runner-up, and occasional GUKPT player, Cristiano Blanco just doubled up with vs Hecan El Sayed's on a , all-in on the river. The Italian now has 65k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Today we're playing 8 levels or down to 3 tables of 8. We're leaning towards the latter.

[Djinn]

when do you have chip counts ? every break or every increase of the blinds ?

Asking that to avoid bothering you with that when you cannot answer...

We get full counts every 2 hours or so, but if you want an individual one just ask for it and we'll swing by their table.

LaFranceWatch Please ?

and who are the blondes playing today ? If some are still in...

Was just counting some French chips like so:

Remy Biechel -- 10k
Bernard Boutboul -- 27,200
Jean Francois Rigollet -- 30,000
Mehdi Ouakhir -- 45,000
Jean Claude Perrot -- 45,000
Guillaume Darcourt -- OUT (he was on the Andy Black Table of Death, after all)

But then found Boutboul calling a button all in in the big blind.  He only had the ... up against a looks-good-when-short .
The flush was quick in cracking the Aces, and he's down to around 20k.

[NoflopsHomer]

Those glamorous glittering goodly cash prizes.

Position     Polish Zloty      Euros approx
1          2,154,000             609,782   
2          1,220,600             345,543   
3             718,000             203,261   
4             538,500             152,445   
5             437,980             123,989   
6             344,640               97,565   
7             272,840               77,239   
8             201,040               56,913   
9             122,060               34,554   
10             122,060               34,554   
11             100,520               28,456   
12             100,520               28,456   
13               78,980               22,359   
14               78,980               22,359   
15               57,440               16,261   
16               57,440               16,261   
17               43,080               12,196   
18               43,080               12,196   
19               43,080               12,196   
20               43,080               12,196   
21               43,080               12,196   
22               43,080               12,196   
23               43,080               12,196   
24               43,080               12,196   
25               28,720                 8,130   
26               28,720                 8,130   
27               28,720                 8,130   
28               28,720                 8,130   
29               28,720                 8,130   
30               28,720                 8,130   
31               28,720                 8,130   
32               28,720                 8,130   
         7,180,000           2,032,607

[Djinn]

Andreas Torbergsen check raises all in on a flop of .  His opponent was looking at the 20k or so somehow already in the pot while Torbergsen talked at him.
"Your Ace Jack is no good."
"You have me on Ace Jack?  You are good..."
"TIME."
He gets the pass he looked like he was aiming for.
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Meanwhile over on table Carter young Dan is storming ahead, just now raising preflop to 2,700, and getting re-raised by David Burn (just noticed new UK player) to 7,200.  A brief pause which gave me time to count his chip towers (just under 50k) and he moved all-in.  He covered his opponent, but not by a huge amount, and he folded.

[Djinn]

Recent eliminations include:

Liz Lieu
Johnny Lodden
Marc Goodwin
Gino Alacqua

[NoflopsHomer]

Andreas Hagen moves all-in for 15k on the dangerous looking board, Kenneth Matsson decides he's racing at best, and folds .

Jeffrey Petronack is left smarting, he's got it all-in with on a board only to find Steve Bromley holding . No King or indeed on the river, seals the double up for Bromley.

[Djinn]

Just like Jeffrey Petronack who just busted a minute or so before the end of the level and current 15 min break...

He re-raised Danny Ryan preflop all in, for an amount Mr. D__RY wasn't going to pass to, even holding after Andy Black had accidentally mucked face up...

Petronack showed:    "Good luck," wished goodnatured Danny as the board came out (You know how Andy Black felt about this)... . 

"Sorry about that," said Andy as Ryan stacked some new chips.  "That's OK."  The table of Death has got all laid back, all of a sudden.

[NoflopsHomer]

Keith Donais must have seen this poster before the start of the tournament.



Jean Claude Perrot makes a huge shove on a flop, Donais eventually calls with , however, before he can add a superhero cape to his back, the Frenchman shows , which is good and holds for a 100k pot.