Pokerstars.com EPT San Remo: Day 1A - At A Glance

[NoflopsHomer]

Katja Thater is out, as is Patric Antonius after making a big bluff but running into trips.

Dan Carter has doubled up with Threes against Jack Ten on a board.

Liz Lieu just won a big pot, there was an EP raise to 800, followed by another player who hadn't seen the raise but was forced to re-raise to 1,300. Lieu called, as did the OR.



Checked around.



Liz Lieu bets 1,500. OR folds and the re-raiser makes it 3k. After some deliberation, Lieu calls the suspect min-raise.



Check check. Lieu shows pocket Queens, beating .

[JungleCat03]

For all you Ingo Mohr fans out there.

Here's a shot of the great man, doing very well on 20k. Go Ingo!

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts of requested players. I took these with the players away from their seats and no identifying cards so the accuracy of the numbers is reliant on

a) the players not having moved from their original seats
b) the seating plan being correct.

This being the case, here they are!

Paul Testud - 9k
Michael Martin - 23k
Tom Mcevoy 7.3k

[NoflopsHomer]

Excellent French prospect Nicolas Ragot, (who cashed in both the side events at the GJP deepstack festival), just made full use of the break at the end of the last level, thinking for a good 10 minutes before passing to the all-in of another player on the turn of a K-2-5-6 board. His opponent offered to show, and Nicolas, wisely or unwisely accepted, and was shown for pure air.



Earlier on, Rod reported a couple of bust-outs but the cards had been wrongly taken, so Brandon Schaefer and Thomas Fourgeron (below) are definitely still in.



Truly a face like a spanked bottom, Woody Deck feels the effect of losing 10k with A-J to A-A on a J-high board.



Emo-punk band leader, Gunnar Osterbrod is in the running for climber of the day, turning his 6k into 30k in less than 30 minutes, the biggest pot was turning a flush against top pair and still having his opponent move in against him whilst drawing dead.



Graham 'Evil Genius' Clarkson, here hatching Plan Omega Kappa 5. he has 27k

[NoflopsHomer]

Roland De Wolfe is now motoring on steadily, A-T vs K-T to eliminate another stack on a A-2-6-Q-A board. He has 26k now.

[NoflopsHomer]

Gunnar Osterbrod having a topsy-turvy time, first he lost a 20k pot with Queens to Ace Jack, then shortly afterwards he calls the all-in of another player on a board.

Mateyboy:

Gunnar: A crushing

Turn:



River:



And just as he thought it was going to be one of those days, his stack is much healthier once more.

[NoflopsHomer]

Michael Martin is first to make it over the 50k mark having raised with Aces and then been called, a second player re-raised and Michael smooth-called before he got it all against A-Q on a Q-high flop. I asked him if he had any other stories, he said, "No, I just kinda play straight-forward, it's fairly dull..."

Dan Carter is OUT, he repushed Fours into Aces, "Seemed like a good spot," came the disappointed tale after his 5.5k shove over the top of a 1k raise was snapped called.

[NoflopsHomer]

Hey Chris and Rod. Great work as always lads, well played.

Any news on John O Shea? ty

Think he went out a couple of hours ago. Rory Rees-Brennan is still in though and now sitting next to Graham Clarkson.

Floppy. Could I have a photo of the player with the shortest stack so I can get behind him and give him my anti-bokking support? Oh, and Junglecat's moobs.

It's probably the Hatpimp Nicolas Levi who can't even find a spot to move in on because there so much raising and re-raising in front of him.

Or alternatively you could support the yo-yoing Gunnar Osterbrod who just lost a 63k with Kings to Queens and is now down to just 11k.

[JungleCat03]

Hey Chris and Rod. Great work as always lads, well played.

Any news on John O Shea? ty

Roy Brindley's out  I'll try and find John on my next trip.

Kekäläinen Eero - not 100% sure which name is his forename and which his surname - has just eliminated a player who I THINK is Giovanni Mancuso. I joined the table to see a board, Eero holding a nut-flushy and Mancuso mucking his cards, shaking his head, gesticulating in dramatic italian fashion several times, although I didn't see him do that footballer thing where they get on their knees, clasp their hands together and pray that the ref will reverse his red card decision.

The dealer was probably a little relieved about this...


Italian mateyboy on Italian Mateyboy action!

Also out is the clean shaven Mazzadi Francesco, enticed to commit all his stack on the river of a T-8-7-T-Q board with A-Q but TPTK proved no good against the wily wiles of Fabrizio Cocco whose cheeky T-J offsuit trips was good for the pot.

"Mama mia!i no-a like-a that!" said Francesco before rushing off to eat some ragu sauce (or at least he did in the strange world I inhabit where all my pre-formed racial stereotypes are exact depictions of real life people)

[NoflopsHomer]

On a board, Roland De Wolfe bets 9k. A huffing and puffing later, and his Italian opponent calls. "No-one ever folds to me anymore," laments De Wolfe as he mucks. He's shown , thus reinforcing his own point.

Notice next to him, Bandana of the Day!!!



Another local hero for this comp. Luca Pagano going well once more.

[NoflopsHomer]

Johann Storakers is OUT. He was all-in on board for around 6k-7k with and Chris 'Genius28' Lee with . Two black jacks later sealed the deal.

Mark Teltscher has doubled up with 6-6 vs A-T. Rumours that he himself also had the A-T are yet to be substantiated.

Mel Judah has joined the town of Bustoville.

[NoflopsHomer]

Possibly the Italian Soren Jensen... he hits a little tamborine and shouts out aloud whenever he is all-in. A bit of an odd spectacle...

Also, that chip protector does kinda look like a man humping a red chili.

[JungleCat03]

Just spoke to Graham Clarkson.

He currently has 27k but he isn't 100% happy with things...

"I had 43k at one point but spunked a load of it away to this guy...[he indicates a behoodied gentleman who looks up and smiles]"

27k is still a fine stack though and he should be making it to day 2...


Shorter but still in contention is ex-LNP and former European player of the year, Frenchman Pascal "TripleP" Perrault. He currently has 14.5k, which although not massive, is workable. Go go Mr Perrault!


Snoopy I think you should root for THIS man, Raymond Rahme. Propelled into the limelight by finishing 3rd and winning $3,000,000 in the WSOP (imagine that as your first line on THM database!), he currently has roughly 10k which is short, although his stack looks pretty impressive at first glance since there are many towers, almost all of which are composed of the low denomination 25 and 100 chips.

[JungleCat03]

Raymond Rahme (who I snapped and have somehow misplaced the picture) has increased his stack to 17k or so and swapped some of his mountains of almost worthless 25 chips for some FAR more valuable (and easy to count) blue 1k chips. Good job sir!

Here is Snoopy's new best friend, and may I suggest a small lookeylikey at this juncture..

Click to see full-size image.

[NoflopsHomer]

Michael Martin has lost a huge 80k pot with Jacks vs King Queen vs a short stack's Threes, the King hit and all the chips went to the stack to his right.

On the plus side, Michael did win the 'Most Futile Attempt To Wear A Hat' contest.



The hatpimping hat pimper, Nicolas Levi is OUT. A-K vs J-T which rivered a straight.

Robert 'T-Bag' Binelli and his comedy sunglasses/moustache.