PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - At A Glance

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Mickey Wernick, the Shortstack King, is on his way towards his comfort zone. He's down to 12k after mucking to the owner of our Trousers Of The Day who was holding K-Q on a rag-rag-King-King-rag board.




Mr Trousers has a co-ordinating bag:

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Mickey Wernick was on around 22k at one point, but lost a lot of chips with a full house, much to his own understandable disgruntlement. Before the Aces hand against, I believe, Spaniard Daniel Mangas, Mickey flopped a full house with Pocket Sevens on a J-J-7 board. Mickey checked, before smooth calling an 800 bet. 2k was then called on the Five Turn, before Mateyboy re-raised Mickey's 4k bet all-in on the King River. Mickey rhetorically asked, "The King helped you then?" before folding, his comments leading to the revealing of a most welcome K-J. Good fold, Mr Worm.

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CHIIIIPS Seeing as it's not my turn to take photos (It's one camera between three here, feel like the fates with their one eyeball)

Alexander Kravchenko -- 8,900
Danny Ryan -- 20,000 (Just re-raised Kravchenko off something preflop to add around 800 more)
Ram Vaswani -- 43,500  (Up from the last time I counted him at under 12k)
Michael Keiner -- 19,000
Wooka Kim -- 17,600
Jani Sointula -- 21,450
Anthony Lellouche -- 25,000
Per Ummer -- 10,700
Tim Vance -- 8,400
Jonas Molander -- 23,000
Neil Channing -- 16,975
John Tabatabai -- 9,425
Kevin O'Connell -- OUT
Arnaud Mattern -- 6,300
James Honeybone -- 16,000
Patrick Bueno -- 13,500
Sebastian Ruthenberg -- 5,100

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Paul Ephremsen is now OUT. He flopped a set of Jacks, but ran head-first into a set of Kings. Ouch.

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thanks snoop

Go guys... GO GO GO GO GO !!!!!!

It doesn't end there ,Mr Pean, it's a Frenchfest over here, the latest Frenchie to get his hands dirty being Ludovic Lacay. I didn't see where the money in, but with one card to come and his opponent all-in, Ludovic Lacay had versus on a board. No club on the River and Mateyboy was sent packing. Victory for France!

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Chip counts! I actually had custody of our mechanical eyeball when I went out, but you'll have to wait until I've edited and uploaded them. In the meantime please enjoy:

Dan Didech - 15k
James Honeybonster - 16k
The Lemon Man - 16.2k
Arnaud Mattern - 13k
Ed De Haas - 17.5k
Vicky Coren - 12.3k
Thomas Dunwoodie - 18.3k
Rumit Somaiya - 14k
Boris Becker, whose two bodyguards now do not want the press to count his chips either, but I was rude to them and then counted his chips from across the way; just as well he's more or less down to the felt on just 3.6k as small quantities of chips are so much easier to count from a distance. I wonder if the bodyguards tried to rough up whoever took the rest of his chips. Gah! Rant over. Sorry.
Mickey Wernick - 9k
Richard Ashby - 13.5k
Joris Jaspers - 22.5k
Jonothon Butters - 11.5k
Danny To The D-Ry Ryan - 23k
Vanessa Rousso - 16.5k
Manuel Palanca - 9k and a bit upset - he was muttering some stuff about it being hardly worth the effort, and also some stuff concerning the devilish good luck of the gentleman two seats to his left...
Neil Channing - 16.3k
Tim Vance - 9k
Gus Hansen - 22k
Marc Goodwin - 12.5k
Max Pescatori - 7k
Eric Larcheveque - 13.5k
John Tabatabai - 6.5k
Ram Vaswani - 35k at least
Michael Martin - 35k at least too - I asked him what happened, but all he said was, "I didn't really sleep much."
Joseph Serock - 14k

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Back on Table Britain...

Manuel Palanca -- 9,350
Mats Iremark -- 25,250
Andrew Teng -- 25,850
Paul Bracken -- 13,500

Manuel Palanca was complaining of a poor run of cards. "I've only won three pots," he said. "One was a walk, the other I had 9-2 in the blind and flopped a two, and the other, I can't remember."

Manuel then went on to, perhaps with a touch of understandable envy, highlight Mats Iremark's good fortune. "This guy is unbeatable at the moment. He doubled up within the first level with Aces when someone pushed in with A-K on a King high Flop."

Also finding life tough is Paul Bracken, but he did just pull out a nice bluff on fellow Brit Andrew Teng. With a Flop of 5h-Ac-Jd, Andrew check-called a 1.2k bet before check-folding to a 3k bet on the Tc Turn. Andrew revealed As-Kh, confident that he was behind and perhaps hoping for a free look at Paul's hole cards. Happy to oblige, Paul proudly flipped over 9h-8h.

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I found a T6 lady as well, but I win because mine is still playing and just took a pot off her neighbour (also pictured) in a small blind vs. big blind confrontation...

He raised by 600 in the sb, and Mme T6 called.  Flop:  .  He checked, she bet 800; call.
Turn:    Now he checked again, and she threw 2k out... shaking his head, he eventually passed - you can see he is still displaying that unique expression I like to call 'folder's frown.' 

Click to see full-size image.

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Complete Day 1b player list from the lovely Mad Harper (we have been bribing her with chocolate). No point posting their original seats as they've all moved around/been replaced with €1,000,000 sit n gos or a "€200 orange" as the guy on the mic just now announced:

Jarle Aasen
Mazlum Acar
Grigore Dan Adamescu
Ariel Adda
Tom Stig Ahlberg
Cornelis Albla
Dieter Albrecht
Aniol Alcaraz
Dario Alioto
Amendola
Fabrice Andreani
Joakim Angle
Luca Antinori
Antoine Arnault
Klas Gustav Axel Arvidsson
Richard Anthony Ashby
Terje Augdal
Ziv Bachar
Marcel Baran
Isaac Andrew Baron
Chad Batista
Martyn Bebb
Boris Becker
Rachid Ben Rezkallah
Jan Bendik
Andrea Benelli
Christophe Benzimra
Saul Berdugo
Anders Hoyer Berg
Gustav Bergstrom
Giorgio Bernasconi
Manuel Bevand
Fabio Bianchi
Remi Biechel
Sasa Biorac
Ghassan John Bitar
Yngvi Bjarnason
Blanco Carrasco, Oscar
Keith Block
Andrew Boccia
Erik Boden
Mark Bollinger
Farzad Bonyadi
Dan Boren
Walid Bou Habib
Rami Boukai
Bernard Boutboul
Franz Bracher
Paul Bracken
Tobias Brieler
Chad Brown
Steven Brown
Sean Bruder
Michiel Willem Brummelhuis
Mory Bruno
Cristiano Bruschi
Patrick Bueno
Jonathan Butters
Gregory Byard
James Byrne
Giuseppe Caciolo
James Campbell
Rey Cardenas
Gerald Carter
Michel Carvin
Casey Castle
Thierry Cazals
Janno Cazemier
Yau Wan Chan
Neil Channing
Glen Chorny
Umberto Cianfanelli
Selim Citak
Valeriu Coca
Stepane Cohen
Gerard Cohen
Massou Cohen
Marco Compagno
Daniel Conte
Christopher Convery
Victoria Coren
Raul Corral
Spencer Cossette
Brice Cournut
David Cowling
Guido Crapanzano
Glen Cymbaluk
Marcel Cyrill
Eric Da Silva
Richard Da Silva
Alain Daien
Mangas Nunez Daniel
Freddy Darakjian
Ed de Haas
Bab De Haas
Gerasimos Deres
Nicolas Jean Dervaux
Imad Derwiche
Vikash Dhorasso
Daniel Didech
Thomas Dolezal
Dumitru Cristinel
Fraser Dunphy
Thomas Dunwoodie
John Dwyer
Borge Dypvik
Jacob Eaise
Sondre Eftedal
Josh Egan
Michael Ehrencrona
Sam El Sayed
Daniel Elkeslassy
Joseph Elpayaa
Shawn Eno
Victor Escudero
Antonio Esfandiari
Jose Espinar
Simon Faure
Alain Faust
Maor Feldinger
Andrew Feldman
Franck Fellous
Romain Feriolo
Leonardo Fernandez
Martin Fernandez
David Lazare Fernando
Miguel Fiatt
Joshua Field
Bobby Firestone
Wojciech Frankowski
Leca Frederic
Jonathan Friedberg
Benoit Gariepy
Jeffrey Garza
Adrian Gavile
Jima Geary
Peter Gelencser
Herbert Gelman
Gianni Geroni
Jean Jacques Ghebali
Celii Gianni
Anthony Gil
Robert Giordano
Marc Goodwin
Metaal Govert
Brian Green
Gavin Griffin
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier
Mesbah Guerfi
Giovanni Battista Guzzo
Henrik Gwinner
Joe Hachem
Ramez Haddad
Jerzy Hajdamowicz
Pierre Hall
Scott Hall
Haller
Hansen
Thor Hansen
Harald Hautzinger
Will Haydon
Peter Heim
Arid Helland
Michel Helou
Juha Helppi
Thomas Henk
Emil Magnus Henriksson
David Hickman
Cristobal Hidalgo
Emile Hijman
Patryk Hildebranski
Carl Hirschmann
Sandor Hollaar
Uffe Holm
Orjan Holt
James Honeybone
Damir Horozic
Jesper Hougaard
Nathan Hudson
Gail Hummel
Afzal Hussain
Ipworld
Mats Iremark
Eugeny Ivanov
Jan Erik Iversen
Omar Jadaa
Moen Jairam
Faraz Jaka
Ali Jalali
Jani Vilmunen
Joris Jaspers
Rony Jazzar
Peter Jetten
Mikael Johansson
Keith Johnson
Torbjorn Jonson
Theo Jorgensen
Picazo Jose Luis
David Kahan
Haim Kakoun
Igors Kalicenko
Denes Kalo
Sefrioui Kamal
Alexander J Kamberis
Marc Karam
Bulent Karsli
Maxim Kats
Mark Keightley
Michael Erich Keiner
Fredrik Keitel
Sami Kelopuro
Yury Kerzhapkin
Hafiz Khan
Cort Kibler Melby
Davidi Kitai
Brad Kliever
Christopher Kloonicki
Alex Kloos
Vasiliy Klukin
Goran Kojic
Erich Kollmann
Alexandr Kostritsyn
Alexander Kravchenko
David Shade Kruger
Tomasz Krzesiñski
Philippe Saadani Ktorza
Mario Kuhl
Tero Kunnas
Csaba Kuremszki
Kurschner
Martin Kvaernstuen
Ludovic Lacay
David Lacoste
Wlodzmierz Laczkowski
Tore Lagerborg
Tato Lancillotti
Florian Langmann
Eric Larcheveque
Andreas Larsson
Ronnie Larsson
Michaele Lau
Tero Laurila
Juha Lauttamus
Paul Leckey
Markus Lehmann
Ivan Lehoczky
Antony Elie Lellouche
Ken Richard Douglas Lennaard
Alex Leviev
Stevie Levy
Randy Lew
George Lind Iii
Pakinai Lisawad
Christian Pillip Lohman
Joey Lovelady
Tonino Lucisano
Andrew Luetchford
Mikael Lundell
Sander Lylloff
Jared Mahoney
Amit Makhija
Emil Malevsci
Charles Edwin Mangin
Jerome Mangin
Ayaz Manji
Jean Christian Marelius
Marcello Marigliano
Armando Marquez
William Martin
Michael Martin
Roberto Massullo
Arnaud Mattern
Rino Matthis
Mike Mcdonald
Guido Meacci
Nenad Medic
Edmond Melamed
Dustin Mele
Antti Pekka Merilainen
Raul Mestre
David Miara
Massimo Miceli
Joseph Karl Michael
Arnaud Mimran
Dario Minieri
Benboubker Mohamed
Barkatul Mohammed
Jonas Molander
Chris Moneymaker
Joseph Mouawad
Simon Muñoz
Antoine Nahas
Phillipe Narboni
Souhail Joseph Nassar
Mazhar Hussain Nawab
Peter Neff
Daniel Negreanu
Lee Nelson
Giovanni Nervo
Jussi Nevanlinna
Vinh Nguyen
Xuantien Nguyen
Nielsen
Thomas Nielsen
Kevin Oconell
Matthew Osborne
Sami Ovaskainen
Claudio Pagano
Armando Pagliari
David Paindestre
Manuel Palanca
Dag Palovic
Juan Manuel Pastor
Minal Patel
Denis Patout
Steve Paul-Ambrose
Constantin Pavel
Dan Pedersen
Salvatore Pengue
Diego Perez
Juan Jose Perez
Jean Claude
Max Pescatori
Emile Petit
Richard Pettibone
Mark Phillips
Felice Piccaluga
Frank Platano
Alexey Popov
Alexia Portal
Brian Powell
John Poynton
Stephane Prevost
Antti Pystynen
Gunnar Rabe
Victor Ramdin
Andreas Rathje
David Redlin
Raoul Refos
Alex Repik
Riccardo Ricciardi
Jordan Rich
Oyvind Riisem
Niels Rikhof
Johannes Ritburg
Luigi Rizzi
Jesse Rockowitz
Cherednichenko Rodion
Jean Philippe Rohr
Antoni Romanello
Paul Rotstein
Phillippe Rouas
Vanessa Rousso
Roland Rozel
Jan Ruijters
Runar Runarsson
Sebastian Ruthenberg
Danny Ryan
Sergey Rybachenko
Ioic Sabatte
Erik Sagstrom
Ilari Aaretti Sahamies
Julien Sallin
Giovanni Salvatore
Eric Samuelian
Ekrem Sanioglu
Szabolcs Attila Saskoy
Adrian Schaap
Gerhard Schiesser
Carsten Schlesener
Calle Scholdborg
Nick Schulman
Torsten Schulz
Michael Schulze
Vincent Secher
Joseph Serock
Luis David Sevilla
Eric Sfez
Talal Dan Shakerchi
Christian Simunic
Todd Sisley
Mameche Slimane
Matthew Smith
Marc Smits
Leroy Soesman
Jani Sointula
Rumit Somaiya
Fabrice Soulier
Mike Sowers
Haward Speer
Benjamin Sprengers
Bernd Stadlbauer
Ben Stark
Guy Steel
David Paul Steicke
Gunther Steinbach
Daniel Stern
Johan Storakers
Matt Stout
Frantisek Striz
Frank Stumpf
Jan Suchanek
Benjamin Sulsky
Surinder Sunar
Roger Suter
Peter Swartling
Sebastien Szwarc
Reza John Tabatabai
Rahim Tadj Saadat
Felipe Taveres
Andrew Teng
Paul Jean Testud
William Thorsen
Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Stig Top Rasmussen
Laurent Torossian
Fabrice Touil
Edwin Elisabeth Tournier
Vladimir Troyanovsky
Marin Truvnev
Tsang Elton
Joseph Udine
Claus Uhrskov
Christopher Ulsrud
Per Magnus Ummer
Tom Underwood
Jose Valero
Martin Vallo
Bas Van Beek
Timothy Vance
Mark Vargas
Ram Vaswani
Jan Veit
Thomas Vestergaard
Damiani Vincenzo
Anders Vind
Rasmus Vogt
Jan Christoph Von Halle
Helene Wagneryd
Michael Watson
Thomas Weghofer
Mickey Wernick
Anders Wijk
Kim Wooka
Cherif Zacca
Jacques Zaicik
Marwan Zakhem
Stanislav Zavoyskiy
Jerome Zerbib
Szabo Zoltan

By the way there were 450 players starting today, meaning a total of 842 over both days, which means that this is the largest tournament ever held in Europe, says our Mad.

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Michael Martin and Surinder Sunar just clashed in a moderate manner. There was 2k in the pot by the turn of the board, and Michael bet 1800. After a brief dwell, and possibly some conferring with his furry little friend, Surinder passed. Michael now on 40k, Surinder and his friend now on 15k.

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BORISWATCH

Sadly, Boris is out. "You cannot be serious!" I hear you cry, but unfortunately we are. It was a back and forth rally that saw Boris' stack go up and down all day (well, just down actually), but after a series of shots that trickled over the net, Boris finally double faulted when he pushed all-in with Ace high on an 8-8-8-Q board. When Boris made the bet, the umpire stated that his chips were still behind the line. "It was on the line!" he replied with a squeal. Either way, his opponent called with a Pocket Pair, and after the raggy River, Boris was sent back to the changing room. 

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Andrew Teng (29,500) has now been plonked down next to Tim Vance (12,725) on Table Channing (16,875). Also present is Jonas Molander with 25,250.

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Paul Testud and Mr Mate E. Boy check down a T-J-Q-8-J board all the way to the river, when Paul bets 400 in position. Mr Boy calls, and all present are amused to see Mr Testud turn over for the turned straight. "Do you have a flush?" asks Mr Testud in jest as Mr Boy mucks.

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A couple of counts I missed earlier, and Negreanu again because the big crowd around his table makes me feel obliged to get his count every time I walk past:

Sander Lylloff - 23k
Daniel Mangas - 12k
Alex Kravchenko - 11k
Daniel Negreanu - 19k

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Today has really been one of those days where in a room full of action-generators I just haven't personally stumbled upon many fascinating hands.  I approach a table just when Joris Jaspers is stacking the result of winning a pot, cards being reshuffled, or when Vicky Coren gets a walk in her big blind (both of these heart-stopping events have occurred) but just now I approached Table Thor Hansen just as Thor was getting his remaining stack in the middle.

He'd moved all in for 5,125 into a pot of around 6k with the board standing .  His opponent took a surprisingly long time to call, seeing as he held for the second nuts and Thor had .  By no means drawing dead, the board failed to pair and sent the experienced Scandie to the rail.  My first exit experience of Day 1B. And his, too.

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By the way there were 450 players starting today, meaning a total of 842 over both days, which means that this is the largest tournament ever held in Europe, says our Mad.

http://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/event.php?a=r&n=28146

Phew, glad I blamed it on someone else.

Ok, largest main event ever held in Europe.

[Djinn]

Evening,

good updates, if you can pick him out. can i have an update on Antoni Romanello pls (brother of roberto, look very similar)

thank you

Roberto was wandering through the cardroom in good spirits today, keeping an eye on his bro.  Apparently a concerted effort from him, Antoni and Mickey Wernick spun up the last-minute buy-in for Romanello #2 yesterday in the SNGs! 

*Note* This is in no way meant to encourage the frivolous journeying of young poker players to places where it costs to breathe like Monaco in search of the Great Spin Up...







...But it does work sometimes.  He's currently on 18k