PokerStars.Com EPT Monte Carlo: Day 2 - At A Glance

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Also running well is Luca Pagano, shoving a J-4-T flop with K-Q and getting himself called by Peter Roche's J-T.

Turn - 9 obviously
River - an irrelevant 2

Double up to 76.2k for Pagano, who does a little chicken dance to celebrate:




Double down and a consolatory massage for Peter Roche - looks like around 25k he's left with:

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Continuing with the double-up theme, Mr Barry Greenstein has in some wise Got It In with pocket Kings against someone else's K-Q - all I know is that there was an Ace on the flop and a King on the turn... Actually I didn't really see the hand, I saw all the cards being swept away at the end and all the chips being swept Greenstein-wards. Most unusual, I don't believe I've ever seen him smile before. This is what that looks like:

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Mr Daniele Masini of Italia, very unsubtly, is OUT on a coinflip to action movie hero Derek Vandamme.

Mr Vandamme makes it a punchy 1.5k utg and Signor Masini shoves for around 6k. Vandamme takes it on the chin and calls.

Vandamme -
Masini -

Board -

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Chip count for Foxy and Woody please guys. thanks.

Here's Foxy, just hasn't had the best start it looks like seeing as he can hide his chips with his hand like so...



His neighbour (Franck Fellous?) has just popped in around 10k on a Jack-high flop, and is just about to get the rest of his stack in too with , vs. .  So imagine the tension removed from his face and replace it with the calm of someone getting paid off with Aces.

Meanwhile Woody is doing very well - up to 105,000.  But he's sat next to Sasha Rosewood, who has just under 100k himself so big pots possible on this table.  As I took this picture, button Rosewood was preflop raising as is traditional in his country.  Small blind Mattias Bergstrom called.
Flop:    Check-bet-call.
Turn:    Bergstrom checks again, Rosewood checks again, call again.
River:    Not this time though - both players check and the Swede's is pipped by Sasha's (suits made up as I can't read my own writing today).



Incidentally, this pic taken after the hand includes Stevie Levy, and their lineup reminds me of those evolution pictures in reverse - From Hoody To Suit Through the Ages...

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Vicky Coren is OUT. Still smiling though.

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The Scandinavian contingent of the media room never get overly excited when Johnny Lodden takes a big stack into Day 2, as history suggests that it'll be severely depleted by the end of the day. However, every EPT it is expected that he'll be able to change gears (or, if I am being too harsh, endure better fortunes) and hold onto his early pace setting stack and go on to finally threaten a final table or two. After playing them for a good few seasons nows, I believe this could be the one where he shines, as Johnny has almost doubled his stack to the 150-160k mark and is looking like a formidable force.

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Trond Eidsvig is looking good with a near 100k stack, the majority of which was won when Miguel Magan Tier made a pre-flop move with K-Q off. Sadly for that player, his timing was off as Trond woke up with Aces and called quicker than a sheep at a woolly jumper convention. A Queen hit the Flop to make it exciting, but alas it was merely a teaser, Trond banging the table in excitement as the Turn and River dealt out blanks.

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Here's Gino Alacqua, asking how Freddy's son, Shaun, is getting on in the comp. But Gino should be more concerned with his own adventures, as just moments ago he found himself all-in with versus versus on a . I'm assuming Gino was short and the action was pre-flop, but either way it's a timely treble through for the Italian.

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Actually that Lodden stack is now looking to be over 180k and I can say with about 50% confidence (carefully and mathematically, er, guessed by me) that he is our current chip leader. Most recently he has knocked out Last Gould Standing Josh. I caught the hand on the flop - there had been a considerable amount of betting pre, evidently, and it seemed that Josh had bet 8k on the flop and Johnny had announced all in. Josh squirmed for a very long time before calling to see the most heartbreaking of hole cards.

Josh Gould -
Johnny Lodden -

Turn -
River -

Odds that Lodden will still not make the money, anyone?

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Some random chip counts -

Danny Hup Hup To The D-Ry Rizzle I'm Talking Out Of My Izzle Ryan - 80k
KANG - around 40k
Sandra Edlund - just 12.5k
Nicolas Dervaux - with just 10k left he made up the blinds and checked the whole board down with Marcel Luske, eventually winning it with K-5 against Luske's Q-4. Most unusual play at this stage im(humble)o.
Jan Heitmann - 60k
Cecilia Borg - 30k
Evil Zink (with goatee) - 50k - being closely railed by Good Zink (no goatee)

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REQUESTWATCH

Michael Martin -- 55,000  On a table with Tim Vance, who was talking to himself when I arrived



Chris Lee -- 40,000



Eric Liu (85,000) and Andrew Feldman (57,000)



Ben Sulsky -- 51,000
Carl Olson -- 55,200
Ryan Daut -- AUT

Snoopy going for the ones whose tables have split already.

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As always seems to be the case, Mission Chip Count was disrupted by the 15 minute break. However, I did manage to get the following:

Cyril Bensoussan -- 166,000
Woody Deck -- 108,500
Stephan Kjaestad -- 73,000
Danny Ryan -- 15,500
Mike McDonald -- 35,000
Stig Rasmussen -- 69,000
Benjamin Kang -- 29,000
Alfonso Amendola -- 32,500
Alexander Morozo -- 36,500
Ben Sulsky -- 50,500
Eli Elezra -- 27,000
Jan Heitmann -- 67,000
Juris Bonders -- 75,500
Nicolas Levi -- 127,500
Patrick Bueno -- 131,000
Dana Immanuel -- 201,000
Barry Greenstein -- 64,000
Hans Eskilsson -- 34,000
Andrew Teng -- 46,000
Jonas Molander -- 49,500
Jonothon Butters -- 51,500
Sacha Rosewood -- 83,500
Marcel Luske -- 59,500
Neil Channing -- 33,500
Sandra Edlund -- 16,000
Shaun Deeb -- 89,500
Joe Hachem -- 119,000
Ed de Haas -- 85,500
Chad Brown -- 33,500
Tsang Elton -- 20,000
Raymond Rhame -- 23,500
Adrian Gaville -- 76,000
Ted Lawson -- 26,000
Christoffer Stahle -- 27,000
Alex Michaels -- 90,500
Gino Alacqua -- 23,500
Freddy Deeb -- 85,500
Stevie Devlin -- 18,500
Paul Leckey -- 25,500
Andrew Feldman -- 59,500
Nadir Jorephani -- 32,500
Andreas Hagen -- 152,000

Paul Bracken was an exit we missed. His coin was buttered the wrong side when his Pocket Jacks were outgunned by Big Slick for a 50k pot. He's now resigned to supporting fellow Irishman Shane Reihill on the sidelines.

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Danny Ryan has suffered a severe setback getting outdrawn pretty nastily, I hear - down to 13k

Other counts:

Samir Rahal -- 20,000
Andreas Hagen -- 157,000  (In all likelihood going to go very far in this one)
Trond Eidsvig -- 41,000
Benjamin Kang -- 44,500
Nicolas Levi -- 115,500
Vanessa Rousso -- 79,000
Tim Vance -- 43,200
Patrick Bueno -- 147,000
Alexia Portal -- 71,000
Andrew Teng -- 54,500
Paul Testud -- 25,000
Gus Hansen -- 42,000  (When I got to his table he was chopping a pot with a rag Ace saying, "I am a dog.  Worst player ever."  Bit harsh?)
Wooka Kim -- 27,500
Paul Leckey -- 29,000  ("Nothing exciting has happened to me today.")
Jonas Molander -- 51,400 (pictured)

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From the virtual pen of Ms Mad Harper, who has not yet entirely mastered capital letters:




they will be playing until the end of Level 13 today (Day 2). 


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Chip Counts Of The World -

"French" Thomas Fougeron - 13.4k
"Canadian" Tommy Pavlicek - 22k
"British" William Martin - 40k

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Last I looked, Mr Paul Testud was more or less down to the felt. He bet out 2.5k on the turn of a board (that's when I arrived at the table so not sure what happened before, sorry) only for Gus Hansen to make it 6.5k. Mr Testud dwelled long enough for the crowd that continually surrounds Hansen's table to roughly double, before calling, leaving himself only around 12k behind. River - and Testud checks. Gus bets 8k and Paul quickly folds, making a noise that sounded like "Chhhh!" followed by the noise that plumbers make with their teeth before they say "Ooooh, it'll cost you." And cost him it has. He's smiling but it's really more of a grimace...

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Robin Keston raised at the wrong time, his 3.5k from the cut-off being re-popped to 8.5k by Mateyboy on the button before Glen Chorny makes it 24k to play in the big blind. For some reason, I smelt a rat, but both players quickly side-stepped out of the way. Keston was flying at one point, but is now back down to 50k, whilst Chony shoots up to 80k.

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Bad news has arrived on update shores courtesy of Paul Bracken. Just before the break, we lost Shane Reilhill to a 200k pot, Shane limping under-the-gun with Fours before running into the 5-7 of the blind on a 3-4-6 Flop. All the money went in on the Flop after his opponent led out with the straight, and although the Queen of clubs on the Turn gave Shane a cheekly flush draw, neither a club nor a pair emerged and he was gone.

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Just before the dinner break, Barry Greenstein was spotted getting busy. He pushed all-in over the top of Sorel Mizzi's under-the-gun raise, but the newly acquired Betfair player conceded defeat after a brief moment of deliberation.

Greenstein = 30-35k
Mizzi = 30k

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I'm afraid the clock/runners thingy may be a bit out for the rest of the day - we have been largely relying on TV screens in the pressroom for that sort of info, which suddenly exploded/less spectacularly blinked out and stopped working a while before the dinner break. The gigantic screens in the tournament area are still working, but they're a good walk away from our laptops so accuracy may be limited...