PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 1B - Interactive

[meds]

gogogo trouser swinging manuel, big up for his lovely missus emily............

[danafish]

This seems like an appropriate moment to urge all the guests reading this thread to take just a moment to sign up to blondepoker - you'll be able to say hi, cheer on your favourite players, make odd demands like close-up photos of the chips, and, skills allowing, post bizarre photoshops that serve little or no purpose beyond making us giggle!

Plus this dreadfulness will occur if you don't:

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[Rupert]

more tufat updates plz!

[tko555]

Look at this! The awesome people at Pokerstars.com made a pie chart of all the nationalities representin' here this week! Cool.

I notice the omission of the Republic of Ireland Flap being swumg by at least 1 Player Mr Paul Bracken of County Cork

[danafish]

Look at this! The awesome people at Pokerstars.com made a pie chart of all the nationalities representin' here this week! Cool.

I notice the omission of the Republic of Ireland Flap being swumg by at least 1 Player Mr Paul Bracken of County Cork

OHHHHHH I have made an error here - the pie chart does not include every nationality representin' here, just the main ones. Here they are in their entirety:

USA
138

France
105

UK
67

Germany
58

Sweden
49

Italy
49

Canada
40

Holland
32

Denmark
32

Russia
30

Norway
27

Spain
23

Finland
20

Switzerland
15

Lebanon
13

Austria
10

Hungary
10

Australia
9

Poland
8

Belgium
6

Ireland
5

New Zealand
4

Portugal
4

Turkey
4

Argentina
3

Brazil
3

Bulgaria
3

Costa Rica
3

Israel
3

Morocco
3

Romania
3

Senegal
3

Greece
2

Hong Kong
2

Iceland
2

Japan
2

Latvia
2

Lithuania
2

Luxembourg
2

South Africa
2

Ukraine
2

Czech Republic
1

Estonia
1

Monaco
1

Rumania
1

Scotland
1

Slovakia
1

Thailand
1

Unknown
35

TOTAL
842


Ms Mad Harper is upset enough about this that she is re-doing the pie chart. Yay!

[snoopy1239]

The following players all have over 40k. I was going to find a few more, but the players dispersed for a quick 15 minute break. I am still bearing the trample marks. 

Uffe Holm -- 73,000



Cyril Bensoussau -- 63,000



James Campbell -- 58,000



Yuri Kerzhapkin == 51,500



Stevie Levy -- 51,500



Glen Chorny -- 48,000



Alexia Portal -- 45,000



Dario Alioto -- 41,500

[The Absentee]

1st sighting of Egan in sometime - 4 Kiwis still doesn't make a slice on the pokerstars pie chart tho....
Mmmmm, pie.......

[Gobbomom]

pretty cool chart. awesome job updating.  thanks Blonde, we appreciate you

[Djinn]

Eeeeeexit at the hands of Ed de Haas, one of the biggest names in poker.

He was playing against the gent pictured below (anyone identify) who, if one was going to judge him by a quick look, one might think to be a pretty solidish player, maybe cautious - after all this is nearly the last level of the day and he had a little over his starting stack.  Of course, it's absolute rubbish to make such conclusions based on nothing at all, as this hand illustrates perfectly:

Ed de Haas raised preflop to 1,150, called by the small blind.
Flop:    SB bet out 3k pretty fast, but not as fast as de Haas called it.
Turn:   Now he bet out 4k, got raised by 13k, moved all in (the only raise option left to him, and it wasn't a lot), call.

de Haas: 
SB Matey: 

The river - a blank (considering) and the stacked player just kind of sat there shell-shocked for a few moments (which is when I took this picture - discreetly and without flash, of course) before wandering off.    Then, like at school when someone leaves the room and everyone else talks about him, they did that.

[snoopy1239]

Below are chip counts for some of the remaining players that have been requested today. If we've missed anyone, please give us a shout, although the chances are that they might be out.

Thomas Dunwoodie -- 14,500
Lee Nelson -- 15,325
Vicky Coren -- 14,100
Neil Channing -- 31,300
Mickey Wernick -- 15,200
Steve Paul-Ambrose -- 5,875
Michael Martin -- 68,500
Andrew Teng -- 28,575
Manuel Palanca -- 23,150
Paul Bracken -- 22,000

No sign of James Honeybone, Tero Laurila, Maz Nawab, Faraz Jaka, Jeff Garza or Mike McDonald, so it looks as though they may have been eliminated.

[jpean]

Are the paid places known

[Gobbomom]

we have a request from 2+2 for status on Ben Sulsky, no pic.

thanks!

[Djinn]

You know those awesome timelapse films of mushrooms growing, or flowers opening, or insects building something?  That's kind of how I think of these pics of Marc 'Mr. Cool' Goodwin.  Earlier he seemed engaged in his surroundings, but now, midway through Level Six, he looks to have sort of given up.  Note how the mustard jacketed guy in the background is moving at a normal pace, therefore blurry sans flash, while Goodwin seems to have been preserved in perspex.  Maybe he's just on screensaver until Day Two.

[nickyroma]

antoni romanello.. please

[kano]

Joey Lovelady please