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

[JungleCat03]

Hello and   back to the casino Sanremo as we await the start of Day 1B of the San Remo EPT. The EPT organisers excel at finding lavish locations to set the EPT events and the casino SanRemo is up there with the best. The sumptuous surroundings yesterday were lit up by the fiery excitement generated in the cauldron of the playing arena.

Big names came and big names fell until ultimately a mere 99 players remained to come back for day 2. We anticipate more of the same today. More carnage, more shocks, more great poker and please please please more of the absolutely delicious dessert that I eagerly wolfed down yesterday. Mmmmmm.

Play is due to commence at 15:00 local time, that's 14:00 for you guys. Join us as we continue the exciting journey to discover who will become the latest EPT champion...

[NoflopsHomer]

Last nights chip counts, courtesy of Pokerstars:

Ville Nyman    107,100
Henrik Brockmann    100,100
Yung Hwang    96,000
Hakan Sahl    93,700
Perrot Jean-Cleaude    72,700
Anthony Spinella    71,600
Eero Kekäläinen    70,000
Roberto Masullo    66,200
Isaac Baron    62,700
Dag Palovic    59,200
Steven Van Zadelhoff    54,600
Luca Pagano    54,500
Luca Mortarino    53,900
Paul Testud    53,700
Alessandro Pennisi    53,200
Andreas Larsson    52,000
Mark Teltscher    50,400
Peter Roache    49,600
Jochen Heirman    49,400
Luca Castagnola    49,000
Håkon Hol    48,900
Brandon Schaefer    48,400
Damir Horozic    47,600
Terje Augdal    46,500
Jan Suchanek    45,600
Marco Della Monica    45,400
Jeremiah Fitzpatrick    45,000
Raymond Rahme    43,700
Carl-Johan Ericson    42,200
Mark Petersen    41,700
Roland De Wolfe    39,800
Massimiliano Tamburini    39,800
Patric Mårtenson    38,500
Alessandro Arcidiacono    38,100
Thomas Fougeron    37,900
Markus Golser    37,800
Claudio Fontana    37,800
Battista Cantonati    37,600
Jimmy Blom    37,500
Ryan Daut    35,900
Evert Jan Dondergoor    34,100
Lee Nayler    34,000
Robert Flink    33,800
Steve Zolotow    33,800
Anders Vind    31,900
Nicolas Ragot    31,400
Enrico Mognaga    31,200
Stefan Raffay    31,000
Thomas Bentham    29,700
Marcello Terracciano    29,400
Henrik Kask    29,100
Giorgio Marletta    28,700
Tim Van Der Zwet    28,300
Dario Minieri    28,200
Liz Lieu    27,800
Rolf Slotboom    27,600
Simon Johansson    27,300
Daan Ruiter    26,800
Denis Doran    26,600
Andrea Cortona    26,400
Stephane Albertini    24,800
Chris Lee    24,500
Jean Pierre Petroli    24,400
Jason Mercier    24,300
Pascal Perrault    23,500
Michael Hogbom    22,900
Emiliano Conti    22,300
Jesper Hougaard    21,900
Guillaume De La Gorce    20,100
Anthon Nikaj    20,000
Jesse Optekar    19,600
Sandro Soncini    19,900
Dustin Mele    17,800
Henrik Warn    17,500
Joep Van Den Bijgaart    17,200
Andreas Torbergsen    16,600
Angel Ivanov    16,500
Graham Clarkson    16,300
Luis Miguel Magan Tier    16,200
Jeop Durkstra    16,100
Stéphane Pessin    16,100
Anthony Gregg    15,600
Alexandre Rubinsztejn    13,500
Cesare Florio    13,100
Walter Johnston    13,000
Antoon Kleijnen    11,800
Thor Hansen    11,600
Asger Boye    10,600
Davidi Kitai    10,400
Sandro Bellusci    10,100
Benjamin Abou    9,500
Cort Kibler-Melby    8,900
Lex Veldhuis    7,600
Bart Wetsteijn    7,000
Christian Bonde    6,800

[NoflopsHomer]

Super-early bust-out for James Honeybone. The board reads 7-7-9-Q and James gets it all-in with Queens only to find Benjo Antonio Estfandiari sitting with pretty with Quads.

P.S

No knowledge if Antonio jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss."

[NoflopsHomer]

'The' Chad Brown and Jan Heitmann, the German Wizard. (lvl 5, high WIS but low CON, nice spells though).



Roberto Romanello informs a friend he can't really chat right now...



Marco Traniello, has a darn good tourney to cash ratio in the WSOP



Sleepy Soren Kongsgaard



Anthony Lellouche, Almira Skripchenko, BEANY OF THE DAY! and Christian Harder.



Daniel Negreanu in 'Apprenhensive Hamster Mode'.

[NoflopsHomer]

Stuart 'Pen Thief' Rutter and his lucky chicken



EPT Champion Arnaud Mattern



EPT Champion Mike 'Timex' McDonald



Spanish-based Danny Ryan



Mars-based Soren Jensen

[NoflopsHomer]

Early disaster for Andrew Teng, all-in on a flop of with but up against the crushing , a turn and then a river for Quads left Andrew with just 300 chips, which he did manage to double up with next hand with K-5 vs 4-4.

P.S

No knowledge if the other guy jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss."

[NoflopsHomer]

Trond Eidsvig, still a Beaker/Quentin Tarantino lookalike.



Isabelle Mercier



George Danzer and his Scarf of the Day!!!

[JungleCat03]

Antonio Esfandiari has built on that early double up/ cooler hand versus James Honeybone by raking in another  decent pot.

I joined his table as he bet the turn of a 2 heart board for 450, receiving a call from mateyboy. The river was a third heart prompting a 2.1k bet from Antonio. Mateyboy again called only to suffer the misery of being shown for the nut flush. Antonio quietly collected the chips that move him up to 24k or so and the likely chip lead at this stage...




Marc Goodwin is one of those flying the flag for england today.

He hasn't got too involved yet, on roughly his 10k starting stack. Here he is covering up his mansion-sponsored shirt, accidentally I'm sure, and looking absolutely riveted with the action thusfar.

[JungleCat03]

EPT Dortmund winner, Mike "Timex" Mcdonald is fairly quiet at the moment. Perhaps he's heard the rumours that there are some hoodlums lurking in the tournament and is biding his time before making a move.

Apparently these guys are masters of disguise. In fact there is one at his table, but he's pretty hard to spot. Perhaps the more viewers amongst you might spot the chameleonic ne'er do well?

[JungleCat03]

There are many other players of note in the arena today in a field that looks littered with stars.

John Kabbaj is present, off tha back of his recent good performance in the Irish open.

Ramzi Jellasi, who has run REALLY bad in these EPTS...

(I'm tallking about running as bad as this fella...

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...is BACK and hungry for success. Can the young Swedish pro put his previous EPT nightmares behind him today?

Also I noted the imposing figure of Tony G entering the arena late, simultaneously increasing the star, noise, table insult and controversy quotients of the tournament.

[NoflopsHomer]

Tim Blake lost a load of chips early on with A-Q to trip Aces, but then he hit Quad Jacks to get himself back up to 9k.



P.S

No knowledge if Tim jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss."

[NoflopsHomer]

Johnny Lodden is OUT. He got all his chips in on the turn of a 5-8-6-Q board with 5-5 only to find out his opponent, Mr Cowboy below, had turned a set of Queens and then hit the case Queen on the river for Quads.



P.S

No knowledge if Mr Cowboy jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Quaaaaaaaaadddddddddddsssssssssss."

[NoflopsHomer]

The impeccably dressed Gino Alacqua got it all-in by the river of a board, his opponent quickly called all-in with only for the Prague EPT runner-up to show for a turned Royal Flush!



P.S

No knowledge if Gino jumped on the table and pretended to swim shouting, "Royaaaaaaaaaaaaal Fluuuuuuuuuuuuushhhhhhhhhhh."

[NoflopsHomer]

Paul 'Tiny Dancer' Gourlay



Todd 'Comicbook Guy' Brunson



I think this is Dani Stern/Ansky, early in the year he wrote an excellent post on 2+2 asking for players to be aware and help crackdown on online cheaters and multi-accounters.

[JungleCat03]

***********The players are currently on a 10 minute break*****************


I grabbed a quick chat with Roberto Romanello during the break. He's had a torrid start ("Some of the players are REALLY bad!" - he told me) but after going down to 3k or so, he recently doubled up, shoving with Q-Q and getting looked up by A-2.

"I hit a Queen but it was a scary board coming A-Q-3-A and a final effective blank T was safe enough!"

Roberto says if he can get some chips, he can use his world famous table talk to win him some chips. Here he is chirpy chatty and undeniably welsh as always. Good luck Roberto!