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

[Djinn]

The gent in the silver shades is Anton Smolyanskiy, actually a US Stars qualifier who is pictured here betting 8,500 on a flop the hand before the break started.  Next to him is one of my picks, a sleepy-looking Joe Serock.  Admittedly, today hasn't been going so well for him, down to around 30k while silver-shaded neighbour has around 70,000.

[NoflopsHomer]

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.
[What's the latest with 'The Apple'??]

Just slightly to the wrong side of 20k. Looks like he'll need to make a move soon.

[NoflopsHomer]

Stewart Chantler, who was caught playing Avril Lavigne from his Ipod so loudly that everyone in the cardroom could hear, a couple a days ago, has been caught doing it again. This time Andy Black told him to turn it down, presumably so Black can hear himself shout...

[NoflopsHomer]

Trond Eidsvig raises to 3,300 on the button. Dennis Petronack calls from the big blind.



Check, Trond says, "Next card please."



Petronack bets 4k,  Trond calls.



Petronack checks, Trond makes a noise like a parrot being strangled and says, "I don't know what to do." But he checks. Petronack shows . It's good.

[Djinn]

A pot grows like it's been genetically modified and zapped with pesticides:

Christoffer Sonesson in the big blind sees a flop after calling a raise from Claus Nielsen.  The rest of this action, though it will take you mere seconds to read, took a lot longer than that in real life.  Both players, though both young and aggressive, don't give the impression of acting impulsively - always a calm, measured decision.
Flop:   Sonesson checks.  Nielsen bets 4,800.  Sonesson check-raises another 9,200 on top.  Slowly, Nielsen counts it out, and then adds another 18,000 in there. 
Back to Sonesson, and while they were both pretty nicely stacked at the beginning of this hand, one more raise and it's stack-commital.  Here's how he looked while thinking about that, probably, as well as other things, like what his hand actually was:



Eventually, though, he decided to let it go, allowing Claus Nielsen to calmly stack up some blue towers which I reckon equal nearly 150k.

[Djinn]

Willian Johnson, raising preflop with , found Jacek Ladny picking this spot to move in with .  Nice fair fight.
Flop:
Turn:
River:

No help - down another player.  Around half the field that started today has now been eliminated.

[NoflopsHomer]

Dan down!

Danny Ryan is out after being all-in with Kings on a Q-5-2 board vs Q-J only for another Queen to hit the river.

Also missing is Dan Carter, we can't find him at the moment and no-one has news of his exit.

Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins has doubled up with Tens vs Ace King. On to 30k now.

One of my picks, Andreas Hagen has just doubled through another of my picks, Sebastian Ruthenberg with Jacks vs Ace Queen. The third, Theo Jorgensen, is also on this table. Goooo Team Homer!!!

[Djinn]

Mel Judah.  27,000.  Has he played a hand today?  Probably.  I haven't seen it though.  At least you can be pretty sure he's not going to tilt-push like he says Daniel Mangas (on the right, below photo) just did.  Apparently he lost a pot and then kind of just pushed after a Trond Eidsvig button raise.  It looks like Trond might have had something of the same idea because he called the raise with .
Mangas showed: 

Flop: 
Turn:
River:    Ouch for Trond, but he's OK with 42,000 still remaining.

[NoflopsHomer]

Hans Ritburg's bustout really hurts...



All-in with vs Dan B. Pedersen's

....you know what's coming....

[Djinn]

Kosta Anastasyadi   OUT
Dan B. Pedersen   155000
Andy Black   110400
Claus Nielsen   108000
Jean Claude Perrot   107400
Niclas Svensson   107000
Kenneth Hicks Jr.   105800
Ricardo Sousa   105000
Willian Johnson   96800
Anton Smolyanskiy   79700
Daniel Hofmeister   79000
James Honeybone   76000
Christoffer Egemo Hansen   54000
Dennis Bejedal   52700
Michael Schulze   50300
Steve Bromley   48800
Brian Jensen   47700
Fredrik Haugen   46000
Christos Kravaritis   43600
Daniel Ryan   OUT
Risto Ailamo   42500
Taras Mikulik   42400
Woody Deck   42100
Piergiorgio D'ancona   42000
Christian Öman   41900
Daniel Carter     OUT
Giuseppe Caciolo   40500
David Robinson   40400
Juan Lapido   39600
Mathias Viberg   38000
John Gibson   37900
Jospeh Serock   36800
Aleksandr Gorelik   34000
Jean François Rigollet   34000
Daniel Woolson   33800
Jose Picazo   33000
Tyler Netter   32300
Michael Hogbom   32000
Sami Leino   30900
Daniel Mangas   30500
Antonio Battisti   30200
Hecham El Sayed   29900
Thierry Van Der Berg   29200
Theo Jorgensen   28700
Janusz Petlic   28200
Melvyn Judah   27000
Mats Rahm   25500
Jari-Pekka Juhola   24000
Cameron Macmillan   23300
Miika Karjalainen   23000
Raul Paez Corral   23000
Hans Ritburg   22000
Andreas Hagen   21400
Leszek Krawczynski   20000
David Burn   19800
Craig Hopkins   19200
Ulrica Skönnemark   19200
Robert Lipkin   18200
Keith Donais   17900
Roberto Nateri   16800
Joao Manuel Nunes   15600
Jacek Ladny   15600
Tomasz Krzesinski   14000
Derek Montgomery   13200
Andreas Torbergsen   13000
Nico Behling   12800
Antonio Gomez Ribera   11600
Kim Öfverström   11000
Stewart Chantler   10900
Julien Boue   9300
Stephan Thiele-Bolivar   3000


These were the full counts at the end of Level 10, courtesy of Mad at Pokerstars.  NOT ACCURATE any more, but you get the idea of the relative stacks of most of them.

[Djinn]

Woody Deck is OUT.

Chris's picks still in: 3

Jen's picks still in: 3 2 1

Jen, the 'GlasgowBandit' of player picking?

Well, Joe Serock has busted too, now, re-raising all in preflop for a total of 36,100.  His opponent, whose name I probably do know but whose ID is obscured by ipod thought about it for a while and counted out the call (which didn't really hurt considering he has to be one of the chip leaders).  "It's gonna be an awful call, though..." he mused, before making it anyway and turning over .
Serock showed:

The board came:  so he calmly shook hands all round (including Lee Jones' who was overseeing the action in TD mode) and headed out.

[Djinn]

A couple of chip counts - the rest to follow at end of current DINNER BREAK.....

James Honeybone -- 80k
Christoffer Sonesson -- 85k
Magnus Petersson -- 95k

But the chip leader, whoever he is, appears to have over 200k.  All will be revealed in approx. one hour's time.

[NoflopsHomer]

Chip Counts:

Name   Table   Seat    Chips
Dan B. Pedersen   3   5    215,000
Jean Claude Perrot   2   5    190,000
Claus Nielsen   1   7    176,200
Robert Lipkin   7   5    165,000
Niclas Svensson   4   1    140,000
Darcourt Guillaume   6   5    120,000
Ricardo Sousa   2   2    114,000
Michael Schulze   5   7    104,000
Raul Paez Corral   6   8    103,000
Thierry Van Der Berg   1   5    100,600
Antonio Battisti   3   3    100,000
Mehdi Ouakhir   6   4    97,000
Andy Black   6   2    92,000
Magnus Petersson   4   4    88,000
Willian Johnson   5   4    88,000
James Honeybone   5   8    84,000
Dennis Petronack   3   2    80,000
Cristiano Blanco   4   6    79,000
Trond Erik Eidsvig   3   1    77,300
Tyler Netter   7   7    76,000
Andy Black   6   6    70,000
Anton Smolyanskiy   7   2    68,000
David Robinson   5   3    65,000
Seppo Parkkinen   7   6    62,000
Brian Jensen   2   6    60,800
Andreas Hagen   1   8    59,800
Kenneth Matsson   1   2    59,400
Juan Lapido   4   5    55,000
Sebastian Ruthenberg   1   3    51,100
Craig Hopkins   2   7    50,900
Fredrik Haugen   3   6    50,000
Leszek Krawczyński   6   3    50,000
Daniel Woolson   7   4    50,000
Giuseppe Caciolo   4   7    44,000
Taras Mikulik   5   1    44,000
Piergiorgio D'ancona   2   3    43,500
Hecham El Sayed   4   3    43,000
Christos Kravaritis   3   4    42,000
Daniel Hofmeister   3   7    40,000
Jari-Pekka Juhola   5   2    38,000
Janusz Petlic   2   4    34,200
Christian Öman   6   1    30,000
Sami Leino   7   8    30,000
Derek Montgomery   5   5    29,000
Miika Karjalainen   6   7    28,000
Michael Hogbom   4   2    27,800
Jean François Rigollet   2   1    22,300
David Burn   5   6    21,000
Henrik Gwinner   1   4    20,300
Theo Jorgensen   1   6    13,900
Alp Okumus   7   3    2,600

[NoflopsHomer]

The first of my picks, Theo Jorgensen is OUT. Thierry Van Der Berg's A-Q crippling his A-K.

David Burn, is OUT I think, his card was left on the table, as was his chips, being pushed towards Jari-Pekka Juhola whose Nines were still showing along with a J-6-J-9-x board.

Craig Hopkins calls a raise from Ricardo Sousa, both check the flop before Craig fires out 7k on the turn. The Portuguese player gives up without much though.

Tyler Netter bets 8.5k on a flop before CRAI on the turn, but Daniel Woolson had got lucky with and quickly called. No help on the river and another player is gone.

Also out is William Johnson, Ace King no good against Taras Mikulik's Nines.

[Djinn]

Fredrik Haugen (top) doubles through James Honeybone... he raised preflop and found Honeybone re-raising out of the big blind to 14,500.  After quite a pause, Haugen announced all-in, for 31,000 more.  Now even more pause action (if such a thing exists) as a tough call was eventually decided upon.
Honeybone: 
Haugen:

The board included no Aces or Jacks, but the for emphasis, and the tournament whizkid is up to a very playable near 100k while James heads towards what looks suspiciously like a short stack.