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

[danafish]

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[snoopy1239]

Feast your eyes on these bad boys:

Benjamin Kang -- 10,700
Eli Elezra -- 6,450
Kai Paulsen -- 15,700
Barry Greenstein -- 8,850
Luca Pagano -- 24,000
Thomas Fougeron -- 24,775
Johannes Strassmann -- 13,525
Bill Edler -- 18,725
Isabelle Mercier -- 9,050
Jan Boubli -- 8,400
Stephen Chidwick -- 9,250
Peter Gould -- 16,350
Josh Gould -- 26,000
Thierry Van Den Berg -- 12,900
Bart Wetstein -- 27,200
John Conroy -- 10,125
Michel Abecassis -- 8,500
Andreas Hoivold -- 11,350
Freddy Deeb -- 21,075
Rob Hollink -- 11,675
Adrian Koy -- 18,975
John Kabbaj -- 8,100
Woody Deck -- 58,300
Nicolas Levi -- 24,775
Jeff Lisandro -- 15,075
Maria Maceiras -- 19,525
Greg Raymer -- 31,725
Sorel Mizzi -- 2,625
Ross Boatman -- 28,225
Soren Kongsgaard -- 9,150
Christoffer Stahle -- 34,250
Nikolaus Jedlicka -- 4,575
Carl Hostrup -- 15,525
Asa Smith --2,350
Craig Hopkins -- 16,500
George Danzer -- 7,300
Peter Roche -- 30,000
David Levi -- 17,500
Stevie Devlin -- 23,225

[Djinn]

Recent chip counts, as tables are broken slowly from the outer balcony area - the part with the view - the better for players to concentrate on the cards...

Patrik Antonius -- 15,800
Jan Heitmann -- 36,000
Martin Wendt -- 6,400
Rolf Slotboom -- 12,500
John Shipley -- 14,575
Andreas Hagen -- 11,875
Freddy Deeb -- 18,750
Andreas Hoivold -- 13,000
John Conroy -- 10,800
Stuart Fox -- 22,200
John Kabbaj -- 11,000
Woody Deck -- 29,000
Ben Grundy -- OUT
Ross Boatman -- 31,000
Soren Kongsgaard -- 8,800
Jeff Lisandro -- 18,500
Sorel Mizzi -- 2,450
Sasha Rosewood -- 13,500
Trond Eidsvig -- 10,400
Roland de Wolfe -- 14,300 (sat next to...)
Thomas Wahlroos -- 43,500
Katja Thater -- 26,500
Roberto Romanello -- 4,000
Gino Alacqua -- 32,600
Nicolas Levi -- 25,825

[snoopy1239]

Our regular viewers may recall him from the Bahamas, his late elimination with a Flopped straight against two pair causing more than a wince from the onlooking crowd, but Asa Smith hasn't faired as well this time around. Down to just a few thousand, Asa found himself in that, and dare I use the old cliche, classic coinflip situation with A-K against Mr Zink's (sorry, you just can't tell Sebastian and Daniel apart) Pocket Queens. A 6-6-8-J-4 board later (Asa's expression appeared resigned to defeat before the final cards hit the felt) and the young Brit was sent packing.

[Djinn]

Special Scandiewatch:

Here are three of your Norwegian favourites (four if you count fellow updater Jannicke):

Annette (15) Obrestad:  11,600



Jan (go my pick Jan Sjavik!  [blondepoker in no way represented by the views of its updaters]) Sjavik:  12,375



Johnny (chip leader) Lodden:  68,000

[jpean]

Is it possible to have a photo of (at least) one of these french guys please ?

 * elie marciano
 * otto richard
 * fançois tardieu
 * cyrille chabot

[snoopy1239]

A distinct "Argh!" exclamation deriving from Table Kabbaj lures me over with the excitement of a teenager in the Playboy Mansion, Woody Deck dealing out the pain with Q-T on a J-K-7-8-A board for the Riverered straight. The bulldog/wasp expression on Mateyboy's face signifies that it was a nasty one, but either way, another big pot goes sailing over to the Deckster, the Lithuanian now threatening the overall chip lead with 58k.

[booder]

gooooooo  Woody.  (prob spew them away within the hour imo)

[snoopy1239]

Mark Teltscher is a victim of the Table Gould. He found himself all-in with 7-8 versus John Gould's 9-8 on a Q-8-2-6 board. Blank River sealed the deal.

[Djinn]

Incidentally, if I hadn't cropped that photo of Annette, you could have seen her rhs neighbour, who bears an uncanny resemblance to Justin Timberlake in that spoof video thing... you know what I'm talking about..

[snoopy1239]

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. 

[jpean]

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. 

As I now, Monaco (and so Monte Carlo) is one of the most expensive city all over Europe.

[snoopy1239]

Freddy Deeb is going north and is up to 21k after calling a river bet from Andreas Hoivold on a board. Deeb showed , whilst Andreas could only muster . "Lucky Flop, lucky River, observed a dejected EPT winner.

[Djinn]

Julian Thew is down to just 3,250 after a particularly strange hand cost him most - but not, as it might have, all - of his stack...

Seeing a flop with which had come 2-4-K, one diamond, he called a bet there, picked up a second diamond on the turn and a third on the river.  With the small backdoor flush, he raised his opponent's 2k bet to 5,300 - it was just called with Matey's for the second nuts.  "I was lucky, really," he mused, imagining facing a river re-raise instead...

[TidalWave]

The guy with the ringbeard next to Annette was also at the same table (TV) table at the WSOPE. His name is Steven van Zadelhoff and he is one of the more succesful online tourney players. Results of 2007:

-   WSOPE main event       11th      $ 83.832
-   WPT Barcelona               7th      $ 94.273

-   Sunday million                 1st      $ 193.000
-   Sunday Million                 7th      $   38.000
-   FTOPS $ 2500               2nd      $ 294.000

Last week he won the Everest 'live the dream' contest where he won a 100K sponsordeal for 2008. He's basically freerolling here.

Oh and thanks for the updates guys. I couldn't find anywhere when Terje Augdal, Kris Ulriksen and Riise where playing so they might very well play tomorrow.