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« Reply #15 on: April 12, 2008, 02:16:40 PM »

Greg Raymer is in fine mood, new conch-type card protector, which I hazard a guess might be some sort of fossil, at the ready.  Early action saw him calling a raise from early position, then passing on a King-high flop to a chunky bet saying, "You've out-flopped my Aces."  His coordination was sadly lagging behind his table chat, however, and he accidentally flipped the as it mucked.  Not missing a beat, Raymer says, "Got to have my eyesight checked," which sounds funny coming from a man with super-starey hologram sunglasses on.
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Word is that Noah Boeken managed to double up even earlier and I didn't even think he was playing as he was mainly chatting to Table Dutch Superstars (containing both Rob Hollink and Marcel Luske).  But it looks like his relaxed demeanour was caused by the nice cushion of chips he got right at the beginning.
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« Reply #16 on: April 12, 2008, 03:00:44 PM »

Forget these 'Of the Day' subcategories.  There is only one winner for Costume Of the Day.  That winner is....

...Roberto Romanello.  I was given a tip off that he'd pulled out some white gloves, and said, "Let's have some fun."  THIS is what he meant by fun.  Photo left uncropped as it looks like the lady playing next to him thinks he smells too. 



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Here raking in a pot as Ex-Seat-One hits the rail is William Hill's Julian Thew (This to be said in the same tone as film titles such as 'Bram Stoker's Dracula')...

Another player (not the one he busted) was congratulating him:  "Good Call," and Julian filled in the details.  "I always seem to have to make a nice call early in a tournament to get the ball rolling," he said, as if it would be much easier just to flop some nuts and get paid. 

It turns out he'd held in the small blind, and had seen a two spades flop with BustedMatey.  He'd checked, Matey bet 550, Julian raised to 1,550 and then faced a c.5k all-in move.  He'd eventually called, and Matey had shown down

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« Reply #17 on: April 12, 2008, 03:14:07 PM »

Chipcounts! The bigger the stack, the more approximate the count, that's just how I roll.

Marcel Luske - 13k
Woody Deck - 20k
Greg Raymer - 20k
Maria Maceiras - 20k
George Danzer - 10k
Adrian "Bleu" Koy - 17k
Barny Boatman - 5k, eek - see below in just one moment for what happened there
Johnny Lodden - 36k
Annette Obrestad - 15k
Jan Sjavik - 13.5k
Dave Colclough - 15k
Cecilia Borg - 9.5k
Roberto "Shamooooown!" Romanello - 5k
Ben Grundy - 9k
Roland De Wolfe - 4.3k (also to follow below)
Trond Eidsvig Smiley Smiley Smiley - 13.5k
Gino Alacqua - 20k
Barry Greenstein - 10.3k
Nicolas Levi - 22k
Tommy Pavlicek - 13.5k
Noah Boeken - 26k (doubled up with AA v AK, according to Julian Thew - I think on the first hand...)
Humberto Brenes - 14.5k
Pascal "The Shirt" Perrault - 13k
Julian Thew - 16k
Josh Gould - also according to Julian Doubled Up Early, so I guess 30k or so
Phil Ivey - 14k
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« Reply #18 on: April 12, 2008, 03:20:26 PM »

Yes, poor old Barny - he was apparently up to 23k when he got himself involved in a 30k pot. He raised utg with and got two callers, as you do.

Flop - Two Clubs - and Barny bet out small. One gentleman folded, but the gent on the button raised; Barny called.

Turn - and Barny checks. Mr Button bets, and Barny calls.

River - something raggy that was approximately the , and Barny checks. Mr Button moves almost all in, leaving himself about 3k behind - apparently not a massive bet compared to the size of the pot - so Barny put him for his last few k. Mr Button turned over . Ouch.
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« Reply #19 on: April 12, 2008, 03:31:21 PM »

Mr Roland De Wolfe, having a massage and thunking his remaining 4k or so repeatedly on the table, was most confusing: "Do you want a hand?"

"Er..." say I, thinking I'm doing a pretty good job on my own. "Do you want a hand?" repeats he, and I realise that he is not offering to take some photos and chipcounts for me, but is offering to tell me how he came to have so few chips.

In a most ugly OUCH-type scenario, he was holding pocket Eights on an 8-T-x flop, and Mr Mateyboy was holding pocket Tens. Two Jacks on the Turn and River meant that he improved, but so did the other guy. "I lost the minimum," says Roland. Painful, but he's taking it well, like this guy:

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« Reply #20 on: April 12, 2008, 04:02:35 PM »

Roberto Romanello has gone off the wall after doubling up. Racing over to me like a speed demon, Roberto claimed to have risen up to the dizzy nosebleed inducing heights of 10.5k. "I flat called a pre-flop raise with Kings," he screamed still excited by what sounded like a thriller of a hand. "The Flop came Queen high and all the money went in." Roberto had, technically, top pair, but he wasn't alone, Mateyboy's K-Q looking pretty bad in the face of the Welshman's overpair. No change on the Turn or River and it's a heart-breaker for Mateyboy, whilst Roberto is now dangerous and feeling invincible.

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Chip counts for some of the recent requests:

Nicolas 'Hatpimp' Levi -- 24,225
Michel 'The Abacus' Abecassis -- 10.400
Soren Kongsgaard -- 10,325
Dave Colclough -- 13,375
Stephan Kjerstad -- 38,500
Craig Hopkins -- 13,225
Maria Maceiras -- 20,000
Woody Deck -- 22,100
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« Reply #21 on: April 12, 2008, 04:36:39 PM »

A massage and a double up are a rare combination in my book, perhaps because players seem less inclined to 'mix it up' when they are having their sweaty frames rubbed, but permed wolf Roland has just proved it can be done, his double up coming courtesy of a drawing Mateyboy in Seat Deux.

After a raise and two calls pre-flop (my guess would be Roland from the button), the dealer popped out a 6s-9c-Js Flop only for Roland to bet out 2k after the other two had checked. The player in the blind folded, but the second limper made a deep reach and swiftly put Roland all-in. Moving in equally brisk fashion, Roland quickly made the call and turned over As-Jc. Mateyboy had Ks-Ts.

Two non-spade fives on the Turn and River resulted in a calm and gentle tapping fist on the felt from Roland and a nod of approval, yet ultimately disappointment, from Mateyboy. "Insta call for my tournament life," gloated an obviously relieved, but extremely proud Roland. "I was down to 2k at the break."

As a neighbouring player commends Roland's comeback, Mr De Wolfe gleams ear to ear as he stacks up what appears to be circa 20k in chips.
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« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2008, 05:10:00 PM »

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
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« Reply #23 on: April 12, 2008, 05:10:39 PM »

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
Julian Thew -- 3,450
Annette Obrestad -- 11,600
Johnny Lodden -- 68,000
Jan Sjavik -- 12,375
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« Reply #24 on: April 12, 2008, 05:15:41 PM »

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.

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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.

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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 three diamonds 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!  Shocked

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.

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« Reply #25 on: April 12, 2008, 05:31:49 PM »

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 three diamonds 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...
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« Reply #26 on: April 12, 2008, 05:41:13 PM »

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.

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« Reply #27 on: April 12, 2008, 05:43:11 PM »

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
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« Reply #28 on: April 12, 2008, 05:46:32 PM »

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.

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« Reply #29 on: April 12, 2008, 05:52:15 PM »

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 two spades .  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.

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