Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 1a - Interactive

[snoopy1239]

Creeping back to his hotel room is poker superstar Phil Ivey, the multiple bracelet winner falling at the hands of neighbouring Dutchman Bart Wetstein. Bart raised it up pre-flop and received four or five callers, one of whom was Phil Ivey in the blind. Phil Ivey led out on a Flop, before smooth calling a re-raise from Bart. Ivey then pushed on the Turn with J-3 only to find himself snap-called and in all sorts of trouble against Bart's Pocket Fives. Aye carumba! 

No Jack arrived and Phil was gone, but I confirm that Bart was a gent in victory and refrained from exclaiming "Eat my shorts!" as the pro departed.

[danafish]

I hate to interrupt this live update with personal issues, but I just purchased a tuna sandwich for €10. I can only compare the painful feeling inside to a burst appendix. 

€20 hamburger just now consumed, and I'm not even full.

Jen had a €5 Coke.

[Djinn]

Patrik Antonius, pictured first to get it out of the way, just proved how even the poker gods must secretly fancy him, thusly:



I saw him call a 2,100 bet in position on a board reading .
The river fell the .  Check to Antonius, who now bet out 3,500, called by the gentleman pictured below.

Patrick Antonius --
SighMatey --   Chop it up.

[danafish]

Final, definitive Today's Player List, courtesy of the good people at Pokerstars!

Vadim Abdulin
Michel Abecassis
Gilbert Abela
Basem Abu Davas
Andre Akkari
Gino Alacqua
Stephane Albertini
Ronny Alex
Anton Allemann
Patrik Andersson
Andrew Andreou
Ionel Anton
Patrik Antonius
Kevin Arba
Alexander Argoe
Billy Argyros
Josh Arieh
Fabrizio Baldassari
Pierre Baronville
Fowzi Baroukh
Mike Bartholomew
Mark Bech
Mostafa Belkhayate
Thomas Berg
Stefanie Bergener
Valentin Berruezo
Thomas Bichon
Givanni Bigoni
Balazs Biri
Per Christer Olov Bjorin
Cristiano Blanco
Barrny Boatman
Ross Boatman
Noah Pierre Boeken
Thomas Boekhoff
Thierry Bolleret
Juris Bonders
Lars Bonding
Carl Boreham
Cecilia Borg
Jan Joseph Boubli
Nordine Bouya
Maximilian Bracht
Humberto Brenes
Tomas Brolin
Konstantin Bucherl
Mag Buk
Stefano Busino
Nicolo Calia
Rich Caplan
Jakob Carlsson
Tony Cascarino
Stephen Chadwick
Samuel Chartier
Anthony Chatelain
Tommy Chen
Pawel Chmiel
Paul Christian
Morade Ciric
David Kevin Colclough
Sebastien Compte
Driman Connor
John Conroy
Simone Coppari
Owen Crowe
Chabot Cyrille
Krzysztof Czerwinski
Riccardo D Errico
Andrey Daniluk
George Danzer
Ryan Daut
Russel Davidson
Matthew Robert Davidow
Guillaume De La Gorce
Priyhan De Mel
Gerardus Petrus Antonius De Werd
Roland De Wolfe
Woody Deck
Kassem Deeb
Shaun Deeb
Didier Dekens
Romain Despres
Xavier Detournel
Stephen Devlin
Frei Dilling Kjaer
 Dorrance Bowman, Dustin
Nathan Doudney
Denys Drobyna
Joep Durkstra
Jonathan Dwek
Aliaksandr Dzianisau
Tilmann Ebeling
William Edler
Sandra Edlund
Trond Erik Eidsvig
Hani El Assaad
Hecham El Sayed
Eliahu Ilan Elezra
Darren Elias
Marciano Elie
Carl Johan Ericson
Soren Eriksen
George Farkas
Andrea Fassano
Peter Feldman
  Joel Fernandes De Oliveira
Fernando Festas
Jonathan Fhal
Steve Fink
Ryan Fisler
Robert Flink
Mark Flowers
Andreas Fluri
Richard Fohrenbach
Thomas Pierre Fougeron
Stuart Michel Fox
Hunter Frey
Adam Gagliardi
Lee Gaines
Karl Gal
Stefan Geim
Kirill Gerasimov
Mocchi Gianni
Andreas Glannbro
Jean Pierre Gleize
Dan Glimme
Markus Golser
Margarita Gonzalez
Paul Gormley
Iliya Gorodetskiy
Tony G
Joshua Gould
Peter Gould
Jason Gray
Barry Greenstein
Anthony Gregg
Rod Grierson
Christian Grundtvig
Ben Grundy
Andreas Gulunay
Anatoly Gurtovoy
Michael Guttman
Andreas Hagen
Roger Hairabedian
Kenny Hallaert
Mark Halvorsen
Georges Hanna
Tommy Hansen
Christian Harder
Alfonso Hassan
Will Haughey
Jan Heitmann
Anders Henriksson
Johnny Hirondelle
Gregory Hobson
Michael Hogbom
Andreas Hoivold
Robertus Hendrikus Hollink
Richard Holmes
Craig Hopkins
Tommi Horkko
Carl Hostrup
Jared Hubbard
Torben Hubertz
Dider Hunn
Valeriy Ilikyan
Sergey Indenok
Alessio Isaia
Phil Ivey
Rezk Jacques
Nikolaus Jedlicka
Leif Emil Simon Johansson
Marco Johnson
Nadir Jorephani
Mel Judah
Ken Justin
John Kabbaj
Masaaki Kagawa
Rahal Kalil
Fadi Kamar
Iliodoros Kamatakis
Benjamin Kang
Per Henrik Kask
Eugene Katchalov
Matt Kay
Eero Kekalainen
Bryn Kenney
Robin Keston
Artur Kirilenko
Stephen Kjerstad
Jonas Klausen
Travis Klein
Josef Klinger
Vladimir Kochelaevskly
Marek Kolk
Josef Franz Kollarits
Soren Kongsgaard
Eric Koskas
Adrian Koy
Andreas Krause
Paul Kristoffersson
Eduards Kudrjavcevs
Matthew Kurtz
Michael Kwiek
Selim Lalaoui
Tuan Lam
Edward Lawson
Tino Lechich
Chris Min Lee
Pierre Xavier Lenoir
David Levi
Nicolas Levi
Adam Levy
Erick Lindgren
Jeffrey Lisandro
Eric Liu
Shixia Liu
Benjamin Locatelli
Johnny Lodden
Morten Lokken
Asbjorn Lunde
Jens Lundgren
Marcel Luske
Maria Maceiras
Ghaoudi Machou
Paul Maddern
Clayton Maguire
Khayem Malek
Andrea Manganelli
Mihai Manole
Vincent Marlard
Pablo Martinez
Daniele Masini
Ville Mattila
Taylor McFarland
Farid Mekhfi
Isabelle Mercier
Jason Mercier
Luis Merino
Julien Meurisse
Edouard Mignot Bonnefous
Dag Martin Mikkelsen
Alexandar Milanov
Andrey Mitropolskiy
Sorel Mizzi
Peyman Mohammadzadeh
Enrico Moniaga
Thierry Morel
Alexander Morozov
Filfili Mounir
Osman Mustanoglu
Richard Nadler
Helly Nahmad
Rumen Nanev
Omais Abdel Nasser
Anh Nguyen
Christoph Niesert
David Norrman
Annette Obrestad
Carl Olson
Gregory Orlov
Igor Osipov
Joakim Osth
Luca Pagano
Nikolaus Panopoulus
Jean Paul Pasqualini
Nils Christian Paulsen
Tommy Pavlicek
Stephen John Pearce
Joerg Peisert
Franz Pejcl
Christophe Perraud
Pascal Perrault
Max Tobias Persson
David Peters
Reuben Peters
Jacob Petersen
Tiziani Pierluigi
Ditspong Pinpramot
Vladimir Polishchuk
Hendrikus Postel
Julian Powell
Terris Preston
Ian Prevost
Mario Puccini
Kirill Rabtsov
Mats Rahm
Raymond Rahme
Azor Ran
Martin Rask
Gregory Paul Raymer
Dominick Raynis
Shane Reihill
Tyler Reiman
Tobias Reinkemeier
Michael Reis
Otto Richard
Thomas Richter
Claudio Stefano Rinaldi
Voitto Rintala
Peter Wolfgang Roche
Roberto Romanello
Sasha Rosewood
Anthony Roux
Andrew Rowlands
Andrea Ruscalls
Paulo Ruscalls
Knut Rysstad
Patrick Sacrispeyre
Stephane Michel Sage
Rahal Samir
Burak Sancaktaroglu
Andre Santos
Gualter Santos
Andreas Sarling
Eric Scalisi
Brandon Koga Schaefer
Justin Mathew Schwartz
Alexander Selishchev
Alem Shah
John Shipley
Roland Shuster
Noah Siegel
Marcin Sikora
Mario Silvestri Iii
Jean Marc Simon
Richard Sinclair
Scott Sitron
Jan Olav Sjavik
Rolf Slotboom
Daan Slutter
Asa Smith
Daniel Smith
Danny Smith
Kari Somer
Ricardo Sousa
Gabriele Speranza
Beniamino Speroni
Gijsbertus Spijkers
Christoffer Stahle
Johannes Steindl
Geoff Stephens
Steve Stolzmann
Dominik Stopka
Ben Straate
Johannes Strassmann
Emma Sophia Stroeman
Jan Arthur Svendsen
Halldor Mar Sverrisson
Adam Sword
Francois Tardieu
Mark Teltscher
Saverio Teodori
Arkady Teplitsky
Katja Thater
Julian Peter Thew
Luis Tier
Domenico Tinnirello
Christian Togsverd
Kevin Richard Tone
Andreas Torbergsen
Alec Torelli
Csaba Toth
Richard Toth
Peter Traply
Alexander Uskov
Mikhail Ustinov
Roland Uzan
Thierry Van Der Berg
Abraham Van Der Ende
Johan Van Til
Steven Van Zadelhoff
Derek Vandamme
Gordon Vayo
Lex Veldhuis
Maxime Villemure
Thomas Wahlroos
Severin Walser
Erik Walter
Martin Wendt
Bart Wetsteijn
Scot Wilson
Anna Wisniewska
 Andrzej Wisniewski
Jeremy Wray
Anna Wroblewski
Georges Yazbeck
Fawaz Youssef
Andrey Zaichenko
Yuriy Zdanovskiy
Daniel Zink
Sebastian Zink

[Djinn]

Two late contenders for Shirt of the Day I am challenging Dana's Pascall Perrault with:

1.  Flowery McCurtains:  Don't know this gent but would like to shake his hand.



2.  Stephen Pearce:  This season, we will be mostly wearing satin paisley relief.

[danafish]

Bounding up to me is one Jan Heitmann. He leaps in the air and lands in the traditional gymnast's "ta-da!" position. "Have you just doubled up?" say I. "No, no, I'm just playing very well today. Very well. But yes, actually I did double up." He's on 42k now.

Not Previously Mentioned To My Knowledge - Mr Christian Grundtvig on 9k or so.

Click to see full-size image.

[Djinn]

Luca Pagano picked up a pot around 15k a little while ago - the Italian Pokerstars pro bet 3,200 on the river with the board reading .  He looked a little surprised and pretty pleased when his opponent called with - his taking the pot.  Pictured here in statue-mode, post bet, pre call.

[Karabiner]

I hate to interrupt this live update with personal issues, but I just purchased a tuna sandwich for €10. I can only compare the painful feeling inside to a burst appendix. 

€20 hamburger just now consumed, and I'm not even full.

Jen had a €5 Coke.

How did said burger compare with the DTD deluxe variety ?

[Djinn]

Pipping the earlier picture of Sidelong Glance of the Day, without a doubt:

Nicolas Levi and John Kabbaj

[NoflopsHomer]

Full Seat List from the start of the Day:

Name   Table   Seat
Michael Reis   1   1
Ian Prevost   1   2
Ditspong Pinpramot   1   3
Jacob Petersen   1   4
Asbjorn Lunde   1   5
Barry Greenstein   1   6
Justin Mathew Schwartz   1   7
Thomas Pierre Fougeron   1   8
Isabelle Mercier   2   1
Christoph Niesert   2   2
Karl Gal   2   3
Richard Nadler   2   4
Johannes Strassmann   2   5
Marcin Sikora   2   6
Adam Sword   2   7
Xavier Detournel   2   8
Stephen Chadwick   3   1
Jonathan Dwek   3   2
Jean Paul Pasqualini   3   3
Ryan Fisler   3   4
Ville Mattila   3   5
Fowzi Baroukh   3   6
Marco Johnson   3   7
Helly Nahmad   3   9
Eric Scalisi   4   1
Thierry Van Der Berg   4   2
Paul Gormley   4   3
Andreas Torbergsen   4   4
Tobias Reinkemeier   4   5
Lars Bonding   4   6
Peter Traply   4   7
Andreas Krause   4   8
Eugene Katchalov   4   9
Csaba Toth   5   1
Andreas Gulunay   5   2
Andreas Hoivold   5   3
Andreas Hagen   5   4
Gabriele Speranza   5   5
Joerg Peisert   5   6
Patrik Andersson   5   7
Kassem Deeb   5   8
Scot Wilson   6   1
Jakob Carlsson   6   2
Gordon Vayo   6   3
Woody Deck   6   4
Anders Henriksson   6   5
Otto Richard   6   6
Gregory Hobson   6   7
John Kabbaj   6   8
Edward Lawson   7   1
Derek Vandamme   7   2
Sasha Rosewood   7   3
Eric Koskas   7   4
Jeffrey Lisandro   7   5
Vladimir Polishchuk   7   6
Konstantin Bucherl   7   7
Luis Tier   7   8
Peter Feldman   8   1
Stuart Michel Fox   8   2
Michel Abecassis   8   3
Christophe Perraud   8   4
Steve Fink   8   5
Andrew Rowlands   8   6
Michael Guttman   8   7
John Conroy   8   8
Joshua Gould   9   1
Denys Drobyna   9   2
Gijsbertus Spijkers   9   3
Peter Gould   9   4
Richard Sinclair   9   5
Anton Allemann   9   6
Tommi Horkko   9   7
Mark Teltscher   9   8
Matthew Kurtz   10   1
Julian Powell   10   2
Osman Mustanoglu   10   3
Scott Sitron   10   4
Josef Franz Kollarits   10   5
Fadi Kamar   10   6
Humberto Brenes   10   7
Daniel Smith   10   8
Thomas Boekhoff   11   1
Pawel Chmiel   11   2
Markus Golser   11   3
Bryn Kenney   11   4
Nadir Jorephani   11   5
Priyhan De Mel   11   6
Tony Cascarino   11   7
Soren Eriksen   12   1
Simone Coppari   12   2
Selim Lalaoui   12   3
Fawaz Youssef   12   4
Josh Arieh   12   5
Julian Peter Thew   12   6
David Norrman   12   7
Pascal Perrault   12   8
Lee Gaines   13   1
Lex Veldhuis   13   2
Andrey Daniluk   13   3
Mark Flowers   13   4
Martin Wendt   13   5
Rolf Slotboom   13   6
Alexander Morozov   13   7
Paulo Ruscalls   13   8
Noah Siegel   13   9
Domenico Tinnirello   14   1
Luis Merino   14   2
Omais Abdel Nasser   14   3
Artur Kirilenko   14   4
Alexander Argoe   14   5
Mats Rahm   14   6
Ben Straate   14   7
Andrew Andreou   14   8
Robertus Hendrikus Hollink   15   1
Anthony Roux   15   2
Thomas Richter   15   3
Mihai Manole   15   4
Robert Flink   15   5
Mike Bartholomew   15   6
Marcel Luske   15   7
Stefan Geim   15   8
Daniel Zink   16   1
Clayton Maguire   16   2
Jean Marc Simon   16   3
Adam Levy   16   4
Krzysztof Czerwinski   16   5
Fabrizio Baldassari   16   6
Craig Hopkins   16   7
Shaun Deeb   16   8
Kenny Hallaert   17   1
Benjamin Locatelli   17   2
Paul Maddern   17   3
Owen Crowe   17   4
Anh Nguyen   17   5
Steve Stolzmann   17   6
Didier Dekens   17   7
Jan Arthur Svendsen   17   8
Maria Maceiras   18   1
Dominik Stopka   18   2
Andrea Fassano   18   3
Gregory Paul Raymer   18   4
Sorel Mizzi   18   5
David Peters   18   6
Roger Hairabedian   18   7
Maxime Villemure   18   8
Soren Kongsgaard   19   1
Francois Tardieu   19   2
Givanni Bigoni   19   3
Johan Van Til   19   4
Hecham El Sayed   19   5
Ghaoudi Machou   19   6
Jason Gray   19   7
Andreas Glannbro   19   8
Kevin Arba   20   1
Kari Somer   20   2
Johnny Hirondelle   20   3
Christoffer Stahle   20   4
Jared Hubbard   20   6
Anthony Gregg   20   7
Georges Yazbeck   20   8
Asa Smith   21   1
Dominick Raynis   21   2
Tommy Chen   21   3
Sebastian Zink   21   4
Erik Walter   21   5
Jens Lundgren   21   6
Hunter Frey   21   7
Franz Pejcl   21   8
Morten Lokken   22   1
Abraham Van Der Ende   22   2
Frei Dilling Kjaer   22   3
George Danzer   22   4
Peter Wolfgang Roche   22   5
Richard Fohrenbach   22   6
Anthony Chatelain   22   7
Andrea Ruscalls   22   8
Shane Reihill   23   1
Carl Johan Ericson   23   2
Jason Mercier   23   3
Benjamin Kang   23   4
Valentin Berruezo   23   5
Adrian Koy   23   6
David Levi   23   7
Alexander Selishchev   23   8
Geoff Stephens   24   1
Paul Christian   24   2
Andreas Fluri   24   3
Jan Heitmann   24   4
Iliya Gorodetskiy   24   5
George Farkas   24   6
  Joel Fernandes De Oliveira   24   7
Patrik Antonius   24   8
Nordine Bouya   25   1
John Shipley   25   2
Raymond Rahme   25   3
Arkady Teplitsky   25   4
Carl Olson   25   5
Burak Sancaktaroglu   25   6
Reuben Peters   25   7
Michael Kwiek   25   8
Johannes Steindl   26   1
Mel Judah   26   2
Noah Pierre Boeken   26   3
Tomas Brolin   26   5
Knut Rysstad   26   6
Tino Lechich   26   7
Stephen John Pearce   26   8
Saverio Teodori   27   1
Terris Preston   27   2
Stefanie Bergener   27   3
Peyman Mohammadzadeh   27   4
Russel Davidson   27   5
Ken Justin   27   6
Eero Kekalainen   27   7
Christian Grundtvig   28   1
Marciano Elie   28   2
Ryan Daut   28   3
Mario Silvestri Iii   28   4
Juris Bonders   28   5
Marek Kolk   28   6
Tiziani Pierluigi   28   7
Josef Klinger   29   1
Edouard Mignot Bonnefous   29   2
Jeremy Wray   29   3
Paul Kristoffersson   29   4
Tuan Lam   29   5
Maximilian Bracht   29   6
Hendrikus Postel   29   7
Katja Thater   29   8
Rod Grierson   30   1
Mario Puccini   30   2
Christian Harder   30   3
Andre Akkari   30   4
Nils Christian Paulsen   30   5
Halldor Mar Sverrisson   30   6
Luca Pagano   30   7
Anna Wisniewska   30   8
Eduards Kudrjavcevs   31   1
Adam Gagliardi   31   2
Michael Hogbom   31   3
Anna Wroblewski   31   4
Nikolaus Jedlicka   31   5
Yuriy Zdanovskiy   31   6
Ross Boatman   31   7
Driman Connor   31   8
Guillaume De La Gorce   32   1
Thierry Bolleret   32   2
Torben Hubertz   32   3
Thomas Wahlroos   32   4
Riccardo D Errico   32   5
Ronny Alex   32   6
Mark Bech   32   7
Pierre Xavier Lenoir   32   8
Alem Shah   33   1
Rich Caplan   33   2
Jan Joseph Boubli   33   3
Travis Klein   33   4
Danny Smith   33   5
Rahal Kalil   33   6
Jonas Klausen   33   7
Kirill Gerasimov   33   8
Mag Buk   34   1
Tommy Pavlicek   34   2
Billy Argyros   34   4
Nicolas Levi   34   5
 Dorrance Bowman, Dustin   34   6
Mark Halvorsen   34   7
Valeriy Ilikyan   34   8
Voitto Rintala   35   1
Darren Elias   35   2
Richard Toth   35   3
Fernando Festas   35   4
Carl Boreham   35   5
Dag Martin Mikkelsen   35   6
Dider Hunn   35   7
Mostafa Belkhayate   35   8
Filfili Mounir   36   1
Sergey Indenok   36   2
Rezk Jacques   36   3
Romain Despres   36   4
Ricardo Sousa   36   5
Chabot Cyrille   36   6
Roland Shuster   36   7
Johnny Lodden   36   8
Joakim Osth   37   1
Thomas Berg   37   2
Steven Van Zadelhoff   37   3
Annette Obrestad   37   4
Vincent Marlard   37   5
Barrny Boatman   37   6
Daan Slutter   37   7
Jan Olav Sjavik   37   8
Cecilia Borg   38   1
Roberto Romanello   38   2
Cristiano Blanco   38   3
Dan Glimme   38   4
Andre Santos   38   5
David Kevin Colclough   38   6
Will Haughey   38   7
Richard Holmes   38   8
Pablo Martinez   39   1
Mocchi Gianni   39   2
Anatoly Gurtovoy   39   3
Thierry Morel   39   4
Rahal Samir   39   5
Roland De Wolfe   39   6
Ben Grundy   39   7
Jonathan Fhal   39   8
Tommy Hansen   40   1
Tilmann Ebeling   40   2
Tyler Reiman   40   3
Sebastien Compte   40   4
Trond Erik Eidsvig   40   5
Severin Walser   40   6
Robin Keston   40   7
Bart Wetsteijn   40   8
Gregory Orlov   41   1
Patrick Sacrispeyre   41   2
Aliaksandr Dzianisau   41   3
Gualter Santos   41   4
Stephane Michel Sage   41   5
Taylor McFarland   41   6
Andrea Manganelli   41   7
Mikhail Ustinov   41   8
Joep Durkstra   42   1
Jean Pierre Gleize   42   2
Leif Emil Simon Johansson   42   3
Kevin Richard Tone   42   4
Sandra Edlund   42   6
Vadim Abdulin   42   7
Samuel Chartier   42   8
Kirill Rabtsov   43   1
Daniele Masini   43   2
Andrey Mitropolskiy   43   3
Chris Min Lee   43   4
Eric Liu   43   6
Alexander Uskov   43   7
Iliodoros Kamatakis   43   8
Pierre Baronville   44   1
Andrey Zaichenko   44   2
Emma Sophia Stroeman   44   4
Julien Meurisse   44   5
Matthew Robert Davidow   44   6
Stephane Albertini   44   7
Nikolaus Panopoulus   44   8
Tony G   45   1
Christian Togsverd   45   2
Claudio Stefano Rinaldi   45   3
Alessio Isaia   45   4
Andreas Sarling   45   5
Per Christer Olov Bjorin   45   6
Gino Alacqua   45   7
Gerardus Petrus Antonius De Werd   45   8
Nathan Doudney   46   1
Basem Abu Davas   46   2
Balazs Biri   46   3
Margarita Gonzalez   46   4
Thomas Bichon   46   5
Morade Ciric   46   6
 Andrzej Wisniewski   46   7
Max Tobias Persson   46   8
Ionel Anton   47   1
Eliahu Ilan Elezra   47   2
Stephen Kjerstad   47   3
Rumen Nanev   47   4
Azor Ran   47   5
Roland Uzan   47   6
Beniamino Speroni   47   8
Alexandar Milanov   48   1
Igor Osipov   48   2
Shixia Liu   48   3
Farid Mekhfi   48   4
Enrico Moniaga   48   5
Khayem Malek   48   6
Stephen Devlin   48   7
Gilbert Abela   48   8
Erick Lindgren   49   1
Stefano Busino   49   2
Brandon Koga Schaefer   49   3
Vladimir Kochelaevskly   49   4
Matt Kay   49   5
Georges Hanna   49   6
Hani El Assaad   49   7
Carl Hostrup   49   8
Nicolo Calia   50   1
Alec Torelli   50   2
Martin Rask   50   3
Alfonso Hassan   50   4
William Edler   50   5
Masaaki Kagawa   50   6
Per Henrik Kask   50   7
Phil Ivey   50   8

[jpean]

Is it possible to have news about Michel Abecassis (Tbl 8 ) and about "Moumouth" (Eric Koskas - Tbl 7) ?

[evani]

any updates on "the apple" hopkins?cheers!

[danafish]

I hate to interrupt this live update with personal issues, but I just purchased a tuna sandwich for €10. I can only compare the painful feeling inside to a burst appendix. 

€20 hamburger just now consumed, and I'm not even full.

Jen had a €5 Coke.

How did said burger compare with the DTD deluxe variety ?

To be honest, it was not a bad burger. I would say it was roughly on a par with the DTD burger (the regular, not the deluxe - it seems like a fairer comparison) - both perhaps a 6.5 out of 10, where 1=the hamburgers my old school canteen served, and 10=the Best Hamburger In The World, which I consumed at the Clover Grill in New Orleans, Louisiana, in Autumn 2002.

However, when price is taken into account - around £8 for the DTD burger, €20=£16.05 (!!!) for my lunch today, $4.95 (£2.51) for the Clover Grillburger, a wide gap in the quality/price ratio becomes evident, making the Monte Carloburger almost exactly half as good as the DTD burger.

[claretandblue]

The now world famous Craig 'The Apple' Hopkins, posing for the camera like the true pro he is.


[/[ [/b]Good luck to 'The Apple' from your pals in Chesterfield and Essex. ]

[danafish]

Mr Richard Fohrenbach has knocked out another Young American (tall, thin, curly hair - anyone??) on that Classic Coinflip (TM), A-K v Q-Q.

Board - a very sickening

Mr Young American takes it like a gentleman, although as he wanders off with some friends, I do hear him muttering "Bullshit..."