Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 1a - At A Glance

[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

[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..."


[Matt Kay, ty Gobbomom]...

[Djinn]

Chip counts as mid-level the dinner breakers swap off.  Half the room is filling up, and the other half is still playing, so there's some overlap for Sitting Two to get ready.  I think.  No one should ever let me organise anything.

Anyway...

Priyan de Mel -- 3,800 ("Grinding.  My goal is to survive each round.")  Pictured below.
Mel Judah -- 20,550
Noah Boeken -- 19,700
Stephen Pearce -- 29,000
John Shipley -- 11,950
Benjamin Kang -- 13,000
Anna Wroblewski -- 16,000
Jan Sjavik -- 13,700
Annette Obrestad -- 9,700
Steven van Zadelhoff -- 17,425
Roland de Wolfe -- 11,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 45,000
Trond Eidsvig -- 17,600
Daniel (probably) Zink -- 22,500
George Danzer -- 22,000
Peter Roche -- 27,000   (Says of neighbour Danzer:  "He's a fish.  A raising machine.  But he's a lucky fish."

[danafish]

Mr Trond Eidsvig - 19k.

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After taking a major hit early doors, temporary Michael Jackson impersonator (see Jen's photo from earlier) Roberto Romanello is now er... history after running Pocket Tens into Pocket Queens. "I can't keep folding," he declared in defeat.

[danafish]

There is a flop - it is and a gentleman in a T6 shirt checks. Hair Of The Dayster Adrian Koy bets, and now T6 Man raises; Mr Koy calls.

Turn - - and they both check

River - - and T6 Man bets Almost All In, or 4k, leaving himself just 2k behind. Mr Koy is most irked - he stares at the board with some consternation, and appears to be mouthing sums to himself. T6 Man is staring fixedly at a point on the far wall. Koy calls.

...And T6 Man just mucks without waiting to see what Mr Koy has, which is, as it turns out, .

[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..."

that was Matt Kay, aka "Choppy" > best friend to Timex aka Mike McDonald.

Yes! Yes it was. Thank you very much, Mrs Gobbomom. 

[Djinn]

Someone was asking about side events:

Monday 14th 8pm - NLHE €500 (+50) 1 rebuy, 2 day event, final 15th April 2pm.

Tuesday 15th 5pm - NLHE €1,000 (+70) Freezeout, 2 day event, final 16th 2pm.

Wednesday 16th 2pm - NLHE €2,000 (+100) Freezeout, 2 day event, final 17th 2pm.

Thursday 17th 2pm - NLHE €500 (+50) Freezeout.

Plus there are sit'n'gos for the keen or the busted.  Just heard the announcer saying "Blew €200?  Table 29."  But he was actually saying 'blue' - the stt lists are colour-coded.  Sounded apt, though.

[danafish]

Ms Isabelle Mercier - down to just 3.5k, eek.

[danafish]

Blind-on-blind all-in action - sort of...

I suspect what happened was that Maria Maceiras limped in from the small blind and the gentleman to her left, possibly but not definitely one Mr Dominik Stopka, raised to 2.5k or so (missed that bit of the hand, but there was 5k or so in the pot when I arrived) only for Maria to go all in for another 8k or so. Mr Maybe Stopka had the clock called on him before folding up. Maria doesn't show, but looks immensely relieved...

[danafish]

Bizarro Hand Half Watched By Me Through Huge Crowd Of Railers And Half Details Filled In By Marc Convey Who Saw The Whole Thing From The Front Of Said Crowd -

On a board that reads , Luca Pagano bets 3k. The Mateygent on the button made it 10k and Luca promptly went all in, for not much more than an additional 4k or so. At this point, Mateygent dwelled up for AGES. There was some huffing, there was more dwelling... And then Mateygent folded! Unbelievable!

And then Luca shows... Not the flush... Not a full house, or indeed any kind of super-amazing hand... He shows the !!! Double unbelievable! It's true though.

[Djinn]

A few chip counts as level 4 (is it only level 4?  Man...) heads to its conclusion:

Isabelle Mercier -- 10,000
The Apple Hopkins -- 16,500
Marcel Luske -- 18,400
Woody Deck -- 68,000 ("You know this guy?" asks tablemate Nicolas Levi, "How does he do it?  Can't miss."  He replied, "But I'm 0 for 1 with coinflips with Scandinavians.")
Nicolas Levi -- 33,000
Andreas Hagen -- 15,900
Freddy Deeb -- 34,000
Stuart Fox (pictured) -- 15,000.

[danafish]

Update on Richard "Daddymac" Sinclair if possible please. TIA.

We'll do our best. Don't suppose you know if he's still in his original seat?

By the way, the reason that our clock keeps jumping about is that they've been playing Level 4 over and over in odd 45-minute chunks to accommodate the split dinner break for the players (no dinner break for your updaters, weep, although to be honest we probably can't afford any more food today ) - we don't really understand the system they're using for the clock over this level, so we've sort of screwed it up a bit... Nevertheless we reckon it'll be ok from here on in.

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A big kafuffle around one of the central tables had me racing over like Linford Christie being launched out of a cannon. Whilst it wasn't quite the spectacularly mammoth pot I was hoping for, it was exciting nonetheless, Italian player Domenico Tinnirello all-in with the Bullets against a local player's Pocket Cowboys. Normally the oohs and aahs would be due to a third King hitting the board, but on this occasion they were the result of Quads and a 5-6-A-A-6 board. This put a hugely popular (several railers were cheering his triumph) Domenico up to 30k, whilst a now eliminated Frenchieboy could only stand there in disgust with his arms folded like a defiant teenager.

[Djinn]

Rob Hollink, pride of the Dutch, is down to under 5k after a series of hands refused to go his way.  The downhill slide was given its first major push when he called a shorter stack's all-in with his , but found it racing .  As you can see, the overcard popped out, which is never a bad beat but can still cause a reaction.

[Djinn]

I caught the demise of John Conroy while trying to count his stack (result of this literally seconds-worth of work now null and void, sigh)...

He raised to 625 from the cutoff (on Foxy's bb, I might add) only for the small blind to re-raise to 1,900.  Conroy's whole stack (c. 5k) went over the line - instacall.
Conroy: 
Eliminator of Conroy: 

Flop: 
Turn:    (John was already saying "Good game," and standing up)
River: 

[danafish]

Chip counts!

Isabelle Mercier - somehow seems to have tripled up to 9k
Barry Greenstein - 8k
Thomas Fougeron - 30k
Gino Alacqua - 31k
Anton Allemann - 26k
Johnny Lodden - around about 70k
Huuuuuumberto - 22k
Christian Grundtvig - 8k
Stephen Pearce - 9k now, after dropping a few chips calling a stripy Mateyboy's preflop raise to 1100 but then folding on the 8-2-6, two-hearts flop - one benefit of this, for me at least, is that Mr Pearce tidies up his previously dirty stack to work out whether he is going to call or not
Noah Boeken - 21k and complaining because the curtains have been closed again; he is told that opening them once again is more complicated than pressing a button, as they have a dedicated curtain overseer who must be present to ensure that the opening of the curtains goes smoothly



JANWATCH

Jan Heitmann - down to 22k
Jan Sjavik - 10k


Patrik Antonius - 39k
Rolf Slotboom - 16k
Ross Boatman - 25k
Woody Deck - 70k - "I'm getting raped. Scandies like to win coinflips." But you have so many chips, Woody! "I'm still steaming about an inconsequential hand an hour ago."
Maria Maceiras - 27k
Greg Raymer - around 30k, mainly in small denominations, sigh
Sorel Mizzi - 9.5k
Trond's empty seat - 32k - actually, as I wrote that he came back, flipped his chair around, and commenced backwards-chair-sitting, because he's cool
Adrian Koy - 21k
George Danzer - 13k
Barny Boatman and Annette Obrestad - OUT and playing a pricey-looking sit n go
Patrik Andersson - as I'm counting his chips, he moves all in to a huge bet from the gent to his right on a board - the other guy insta-calls, and his is crushing Patrik's . The on the river and he's OUT.