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

[NoflopsHomer]

Full provisional player list from pokerstars.

Michael Watson   1   1
Micheal Tureniec   1   2
Marius Bobinas   1   3
Paolo Arcudi   1   4
George Danzer   1   5
Andrea Di Marzio   1   6
Salvatore Dambra   1   7
Alberto De Nardi   1   8
Matthew Nichol   1   9
Simone Rossi   1   10
Angelo Alberto Falcone   2   1
Peiter van Gils   2   2
Patrick Uzan   2   3
Vincenzo Dechò   2   4
William Thorson   2   5
Peter Skriver   2   6
Marek Kolk   2   7
Jason Su   2   8
Ranith Wimalaratna   2   9
Marco Figuccia   2   10
Erwan Granvalet   3   1
Isabelle Mercier   3   2
Brian Green   3   3
Bob West   3   4
Mats Rahm    3   5
Michele Cammarotta   3   6
Daniel McVicar   3   7
Jonas Jakobsson   3   8
Pier Fabretti   3   9
Flavio Ferrari Zumbini   3   10
Daniel Negreanu   4   1
Sven Leu   4   2
Niels Rikhof   4   3
Tomas Brolin   4   4
Jussi Nevanlinna   4   5
Joris Jaspers   4   6
Thomas Boekhoff   4   7
Cristiano Loioli   4   8
Juha Helppi   4   9
Jonas Klausen   4   10
Felipe Ramos   5   1
Michael Schulze   5   3
Rasmus Nielsen   5   4
Piet Bakker   5   5
Nico  Behling   5   6
Giampiero Cocciò   5   7
Jason 'the hood' Gray   5   8
Gregory Genovese   5   9
Robert Giordano   5   10
David Czaja   6   1
Johan Berg   6   2
Jordan Lande   6   3
Cataldo Alfì   6   4
Dennis Kobbero Plejdrup   6   5
Sandra Crapanzano   6   6
Tim Blake   6   7
Francesco De Vivo   6   8
Michele Limongi   6   9
Janno Cazemier   6   10
Henric Andersson   7   1
Rosario Filippo Galtieri   7   2
Davide Belsito   7   3
Matt Kay   7   4
Kees Alblas   7   5
Roelof Sasburg   7   6
Pasquale Cicatiello   7   7
Mauro Stivoli   7   8
Paul Gourlay   7   9
Maxime Masquelier   7   10
Christoph Zweig   8   1
Adrianus "Jarno" Goesten   8   2
Luigi Canclini   8   3
Noah Boeken   8   4
Steve Fink   8   5
Michele Gobbin   8   6
Daniel Brunner   8   7
Daniel Smidt   8   8
Marin Hruby   8   9
Marcello Marigliano   8   10
Ivar Kleive Voll   9   1
Andreas Unger   9   2
Taneli Tiikkaja   9   3
Billy Argyros   9   4
Juan Diez   9   5
Gianni Filieri   9   6
Anders Henriksson   9   7
Joshua Gould   9   8
Julian Powell   9   9
Ludovic Lacay   9   10
Fausto Cheli   10   1
Dimitrios Kotinas   10   2
Lee Nelson   10   3
Metin Cicek   10   4
Carl Olson   10   5
Jacques Zaicik   10   6
Mike Sowers   10   7
Marcus Bower   10   8
Konstantin Bücherl   10   9
Claudio Rinaldi   10   10
Heinz-Peter Bock   11   1
Jose Tsujita   11   2
Darren Moy   11   3
Gianvalerio Bindi   11   4
Mike McDonald   11   5
Gianluca Gargano   11   6
Pasi Heinanen   11   7
Elias Brussianos   11   8
Todd Brunson   11   9
Mauro Sussan   11   10
Antonio Grimaldi    12   1
Stuart Rutter   12   2
Massimiliano Reggiani   12   3
Luis Jaikel   12   4
Leslie Kerrigan   12   5
Thomas Dekker   12   6
Alexis Mazurier   12   7
Antanas Guoga   12   8
Andreas Glannbro   12   9
Arnaud Mattern   12   10
Mihaela Novak   13   1
Jukka  Isopahkala   13   2
Justin Truesdell   13   3
Marius Pospiech   13   4
Fritz Pfau   13   5
Wayne Emerson   13   6
Anthony Chatelain   13   7
Rajala Mihai   13   8
Casper Dahl Hansen   13   9
Sampo Verkasalo   13   10
Marco Cavarrieri   14   1
Trond Eidsvig   14   2
Rehne Pedersen   14   3
Bryn Kenney   14   4
Kjan Kasper   14   5
Paul Alterman   14   6
antonio De angelis   14   7
Imad Derwiche   14   8
William Wanke   14   9
Fabrizio Roglady   14   10
Mads Wissing Andersen   15   1
Jannick Wrang   15   2
Daniel Ryan   15   3
Paolo Della Penna   15   4
Cristiano Viali   15   5
Kai-Are Hauge   15   6
Leroy Soesman   15   7
Marc Goodwin   15   8
Thomas Wolfer   15   9
Julien Pouchain   15   10
Alessandro De Michele   16   1
Mario Riccio   16   2
Gino Alacqua   16   3
Daniel Didech   16   4
Mika Paasonen   16   5
Akos Nemeth   16   6
Alessandro "Desmo" Pastura   16   7
Lorenzo Lagana   16   8
Matin Talebi   16   9
Johannes Strassmann   16   10
Jonathan  Lundy   17   1
Stieven Razab-Sekh   17   2
Nicolò Calia   17   3
Santiago Holguin-Lopez   17   4
Massimiliano  Pescatori   17   5
Davide De Prosperis   17   6
Klaus Pautrot   17   7
Leonardo Ebeling   17   8
Roland Rozel   17   9
Hans-Ari Varsi   17   10
Kenneth Matsson   18   1
Daniele Vesco   18   2
Nicolas Dervaux   18   3
Hakan Copur   18   4
Bo Sehlstedt   18   5
Richard Frischer   18   6
Robin Bos   18   7
Julian Parmann   18   8
Luca Cainelli   18   9
Niels  Stampe   18   10
Brian Flood   19   1
Paolo Realmuto   19   2
Mihai Manole   19   3
Ed  De Haas   19   4
Dino D'Onofrio   19   5
Steffen Vahlkvist   19   6
Lawrence Spencer   19   7
Hans Eskilsson   19   8
Bertrand Grospellier   19   9
Jiri Kulhanek   19   10
Giuseppe Caciolo   20   1
Søren S. Jensen   20   2
Gary Bickle   20   3
Glen Cymbaluk   20   4
Daniel Walker   20   5
Guy Benhamou   20   6
MASSIMO REYNAUD   20   7
Gonzalo Castro   20   8
Eric Koskas   20   9
Johnny Lodden   20   10
Daniele Cuomo   21   1
Mikael Gibbemark   21   2
Daniel Stern   21   3
Kenneth Tomming   21   4
Frederic  Ghintran   21   5
Mattias Nordhamn   21   6
Ola Öinert   21   7
Stefan Streifeneder   21   8
Norbert Hölting   21   9
Tyler Reiman   21   10
Chuc Moang   22   1
Maurice Schulmann   22   2
Brian Freche   22   3
Bruce Atkinson   22   4
Carmelo Vasta   22   5
Giovanni Drago   22   6
Jerzy Hajdamowicz   22   7
Viviano Burchi   22   8
Fernando Cimaglia   22   8
Scott Wilson   22   9
Minh Diep   22   10
Antoine Dodivers   23   1
Michael Clees   23   2
Daniel Lega   23   3
Rob Hollink   23   4
James Honeybone   23   5
Pal Hjertenes   23   6
Antonio Esfandiari   23   7
Flavio Bano   23   8
Martin Wendt   23   9
Benjamin Straate   23   10
John  Kabbaj   24   1
Miroslaw  Klys   24   2
Guillaume Darcourt   24   3
Vanessa Rousso   24   4
Alexandre Coulaud   24   5
Martin Lundenius   24   6
Claudio Lancia   24   7
Alexander Linder   24   8
Giuseppe Randazzo   24   9
Arthur Mooibroek   24   10
Jairsinho le Grand   25   1
Andrea Balla   25   2
Stanislav Zavoyskiy   25   3
Morten   Erlandsen   25   4
Peyman Mohammadzadeh   25   5
Andrew Teng   25   6
Robert Price   25   7
Laurent Mascarello   25   8
Maurizio Marchese   25   9
Stephan Kjerstad   25   10
Giuseppe Incuria   26   1
Kevin Shutt   26   2
Ramzi Jelassi   26   3
Marine Labernardie   26   4
Peter Jetten   26   5
Tony Basile   26   6
Georg Geissler   26   7
Theo Jørgensen   26   8
Marco Dell'Utri   26   9
Soren Eriksen   26   10
Constant Caiola   27   1
Giorgio Sampietro   27   2
Jacek Landy   27   3
Søren  Kongsgaard   27   4
Richard Holmes   27   5
Michael Friedrich   27   6
Alfonso Amendola   27   7
Viktor Wessman   27   8
Marco Brech   27   9
Marco Traniello   27   10
Paul Kiely   28   1
Marcos Gabriel   28   2
Thierry Van Der Berg   28   3
Patrick Arba   28   4
Antony Lellouche   28   5
Almira Scripcenco   28   6
Per Strom   28   7
Christian Harder   28   8
Henry Terranova   28   10
Lorenzo Esposito   29   1
David Moreau   29   2
Jerome Zerbib   29   3
Jukka Ylitalo   29   4
Tommaso Natale   29   5
JELTE KRUIJER   29   6
Ezio Guagliata   29   7
MICKE JOHANSSON   29   8
PASCAL BARRAU   29   9
MAURO RONDONI   29   10
Petter  Sundbye   30   1
ALESSIO MASINI   30   2
Andreas Krause   30   3
Andrea Nunes   30   4
Leo  Gizzarelli   30   5
Mattia  Taddia   30   6
Roger Hairabedian   30   7
Massimiliano Trifoglio   30   8
Tommaso Ambrosini   30   9
Paolo Grossi   30   10
Rocco Schiarrone   31   1
Darrin Melwani   31   2
Salvatore Pengue   31   3
Besim Sumer   31   4
Salvatore Chillemi   31   5
Francesco Speziale   31   6
dennis Maratta   31   7
Escobar Cinthia Carolina   31   8
Fabrice Soulier   31   9
Agazio Gerace   32   1
Giovanni Izzi   32   2
Jean Rohr   32   3
Fabrizio Baldassari   32   4
Guido Crapanzano   32   5
Enrico Botter   32   6
Salvatore Di Mauro   32   7
Giovanni Salvatore   32   8
Gezi Bason   33   1
Daniele Guidetti   33   2
Francesco Ciriani    33   3
DANILO CASALVIERI   33   4
Luca Bargilli   33   5
Alessio Isaia   33   6
Maurizio Bacci   33   7
Helen Davis   33   8
Petko Marinov   33   9
Alfio Previti   34   1
Marcello Fogliata   34   2
PierGiorgio D'Ancona   34   3
Wlodzimierz Laczkowski   34   4
Mark Flowers   34   5
Carlo Savinelli   34   6
Domenico Gargano   34   7
Alessandro Minasi   34   8
Alessandro Lusso   34   9
Edward Corrado   35   1
Stefan Mattson   35   2
Pasquale Vinci   35   3
Ugur Ucoskun   35   4
Voitto Rintala   32   5
Sven Polanski   35   6
Santiago Houlguin Romero   35   7
Haward Speer   35   8
Mikaela Nordin   35   9
Maurizio Musso   36   1
Lacasa Francisco   36   2
Isidoro Alampi   36   3
Filippo Russo   36   4
Daniel Donovan   36   5
Antonio Albanese   36   6
Ljubomir Josipovic   36   7
Salvatore Catia   36   8
Numa Bennamou   36   9
Jan  Heitmann   37   1
Huseyin Yilmaz    37   2
Basem Davas   37   3
Gandrup Rasmus   37   4
Filippo Magni   37   5
Roberto Romanello   37   6
Orazio Granvillano   37   7
Mirko Puskadija   37   8
Chad Brown   37   9

[NoflopsHomer]

Juha Helppi has hit an early double up with on a board vs after harmless blanks on the turn and river.

William Thorson has lost about 5k after setting a short-stack all-in on a flop with , but his opponent had and hit the on the turn to leave the Swedish player drawing dead.

Tim Blake has knocked out Soren Kongsgaard lookalike Johan Berg who held A-Q on a board, but plucky Tim was not the one saying, "Hasta La Vista Blakey," as he was holding for a full house that put him over 20k.

Kevin Shutt was meant to be sitting next to Ramzi Jelassi but Ramzi said that the guy to his right, whom he thought was Italian, was OUT. Ramzi bet a Q-7-5 board with 8-6 and only Italian guy/Kevin? called, the latter c/raising all-in on the 4 turn with 7-5, by which time Ramzi had the nuts and knocked him out.

Stephan Kjerstad -- 7k

[JungleCat03]

Some assorted chip counts from the playing arena.

J Kabbaj - 9k
Mike Mcdonald - 12.5k
Arnaud Mattern 7.5k
Todd Brunson (who incidentally makes it VERY difficult to count his stack as he usually has his chunky bear-like forearms clamped firmly round his stack) - 6.5k
Dan Negreanu - 12k

Stuart Rutter - 7.5k - Stuart has his "lucky" charm with him today. You saw him posing earlier with "REG THE CHICKEN" who has accompanied Stu to San Remo. So far though Reg has not been working his magic. As I approach Stu's table to talk to him, he lifts Reg up and gives him a glum squeeze resulting in a somewhat limp squeaking noise coming out of the chicken. It was a heart rending moment.

"He's not doing it for me at the moment. Down to 7.5k" Stu tells me.

"Start using Reg to push your chips in" I advise him. "That will probably help"

"I need some chips first!!"

[NoflopsHomer]

Mads Wissing Andersen (best middle name ever imo) raises to 425 from midposition, Danny Ryan calls next to him. Everyone else folds.



Mads checks, Danny bets 600, Mads calls.



Mads checks again, Danny bets 1,300 and again Mads calls.



Mads checks once more and Danny fires a third 2,500 bullet. Mads calls, Danny taps the table and mucks. Mads shows .

[JungleCat03]

Isabelle Mercier is down to 7.5k after one particular hand.

I missed the preflop action but Isabelle bet out 2k on a flop, only to find Pier Fabretti raising in position to 5k.

Isabelle huffed and she puffed, but ultimately it was her house of cards that blew down as she threw her hand into the muck in disgust. She instantly leapt to her feet and walked away from the table, steam pouring out of her ears, looking as though she wanted to kick some serious butt. A channel cleared in the dense throng of watching press to let her pass as she sliced through them like a little Canadian firebrand through some eurodonk butter.

Here she is mid decision, seconds away from combustion.

[JungleCat03]

Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier, winner of the Caribbean leg of the EPT , is now very short. Climbing to the heights of 17k earlier on, he has since had several bluffs picked off and finds himself very short on 3.1k.


One of the casualties of today is Brian Flood. He will no doubt be an unknown to most people but I spent sometime talking to the Canadian player at the opening of the EPT. He told me he plays thousands of online comps every year as well as being involved in the running of a big chain of pool halls.

I promised him if he did well then I would get a few pictures of him and some good puns on his name, but as he busted out before I got the chance, all i can say is that "Flood is all washed up." Good game sir!

[NoflopsHomer]

Roberto Romanello has just doubled up to 26k getting it all-in on a flop with pocket Sixes against which was drawing much thinner than it could possibly imagine.

Elky is OUT. 8-8 vs J-J on an A-J-8 board.

Soren Kongsgaard has 15k having disposed of Marco Traniello on a K-high two heart board vs .

Mike McDonald makes a nice little value bet on a with against Juha Helppi for 1,100. But soon after he loses 4k to a short-stack calling a limp/re-raise all-in with A-J and finding himself dominated by A-K. He has about 7k remaining.

[JungleCat03]

Pokerstars.com have just provided us with the official prizepool breakdown. Some juicy rewards out there for the players.

Here it is in all its glory...

1              € 869,000

2              € 505,000

3              € 287,600

4              € 223,600

5              € 188,500

6              € 140,600

7              € 111,800

8              € 76,700

9-10       € 46,300

11-12     € 28,750

13-14     € 22,400

15-16     € 17,600

17-24     € 16,000

25-32     € 12,800

33-40     € 11,200

41-48     € 9,600

49-56     € 8,000

57-64     € 7,020

65-72     € 5,750

[JungleCat03]

Arnaud Mattern, winner of the EPT Prague and owner of the most celebrated eyebrow in poker, is looking a bit short, holding a mere 6.5k at the moment.



Danny Negreanu is busy raising almost every pot in late position as he is prone to do and so far his strategy is paying dividends as he is up to 20k or so.

Here he is, receiving a massage from an invisible Suki and loving it maybe a bit too much.

WAKE UP KID POKER WAKE UP!

[JungleCat03]

I travel over to EPT Dortmund final tablist Johannes Strassman's table only to find the ex-army man has gone AWOL. I send out a team of commandos to locate him but manage to catch a shot of his impressive stack, up to 23k+ at the moment.

Also notice the worst attempt in history to appear surreptitious whilst sneaking into a photo by the dealer...




Aha, my commandos report back successfully and have tracked down Strassmann to a location near to Danny Ryan. I move in with my reconnaissance team and we discover him chatting away to the currently less successful but equally cheerful Danny Ryan, down to 7k after that unsuccessful bluff earlier.

[NoflopsHomer]

Trond Eidsvig bets 1,975 on the turn of a board, having also bet decently on the flop. He's called but then forced to face a 3,500 bet on the river . He counts out his stack and eventually calls, only to be shown a turned gutshot , sickened, he flings his cards in the muck and says, "Nice hand sir." At least he has now a 1 hour dinner break to stave off the tilt.



Mike McDonald is OUT. He moved in on the turn of a board with and was looked up by Juha Helppi's for the "everything draw". Juha hit the on the river and we're down an EPT champion.



Theo Jorgensen -- 22k (Also Anthony Lellouche -- 30k in the background)

[JungleCat03]

Les Kerrigan wanted me to say "HI" to the hitsquad members so to Praz, Karl, James, Sunny and Chaz and anyone else I have accidentally missed off, I say "HI!"

Here is the back of Les' head, apologies for rubbish photo but his table isn't well placed for me to photograph. I'll try and do better later. He's doing great on 20k or so at the moment.




It's funny. Normally if someone were to dig their elbow into your back, you would feel hard done by and possibly involve some sort of authorities into proceedings. When this lady does it though, no one seems t complain. Hmmmm.......

[JungleCat03]

Hows Roberto's stack looking?

thanks for the updates

I don't know how he does it sometimes but from a low point of 3k, Roberto, the Welsh Wizard, has conjured his stack up to a whopping 22k or so.  He had a big beaming smile on his face as I spoke to him and I fully expect Radio Romanello to be broadcasting full volume on all frequencies very shortly.

Great work Roberto!


US High stakes poker watch.

Todd Brunson - short 7k or so.

Antonio Esfandiari - 21k

Daniel "Barry Negragnu" Negreanu - 22k, just pipping his fellow high stakes professional at the moment...

[NoflopsHomer]

Arnaud Mattern is OUT. 88 vs AQ then TT vs AA in consecutive hands

[NoflopsHomer]

BritWatch!

Stuart 'Pen Thief' Rutter -- 8k
Marc Goodwin (pictured) -- 3.3k
Josh Gould -- (pictured) 25k
John Kabbaj -- 11k (pictured) (A nice little pot with vs on a board)
Roberto Romanello -- 30k
Paul Gourlay -- 7k

Danny Ryan is in the media room, so he must be out.