Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3

Recent things I posted on the Makeshift Blog.

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3:37pm

Concerning the €10k STT, from the virtual pen of Mad Harper:

dear all

just to answer a few questions regarding the Stars of Poker $100k televised Sit and Go that is taking place right now (April1 15) at the EPT Grand Final....

Eight Team PokerStars Pros are taking part :Daniel Negreanu (actually first out after being busted, set over set, by EPT founder John Duthie), Katja Thater (Germany), Noah Boeken (Holland), Barry Greenstein (USA), Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (France, winner of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January 2008), John Duthie (UK), Dario Minieri(Italy, 3rd at EPT San Remo), plus Victoria Coren (£500k winner of EPT3 London), plus Joseph "bigjoe2003" Michael who won a special live freeroll satellite held last night for PokerStars Supernova Elites. PokerStars' chief blogger Brad Willis recently wrote a great piece on Joseph Michael: http://www.pokerstarsblog.com/2008/02/pokerstars-gives-new-meaning-to-house.html

For profiles on Team PokerStars Pros, see http://www.pokerstars.com/team-pokerstars/

All Team PS Pros paid $10,000 (dollars) to enter and PokerStars has added $20,000 to the prize pool to bring it up to $100,000. Payout: $50k to 1st place; $30k to 2nd, $20k to 3rd.

Do let me know if you need any more information.

Best wishes

Mad Harper
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Some counts:

Andrew Teng - 35k
Trond Eidsvig

- 30k
Antonio Esfandiari - 150k
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Mostafa Belkhayate has doubled up to the tune of perhaps 200k courtesy of overnight chip leader Oyvind Riisem - Mostafa was holding K-Q on a King-high board, I'm afraid I didn't see what Riisem had. A massive "YESSS!!!!" and an ungentlemanly handclap from Mostafa alerted me to the double-up. Oyvind is not best pleased obviously, but certainly not in any trouble just yet.

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Mr Jan Sjavik shoves for around 25k from the big blind after, I believe, a small raise from Michel Carvin on the button. Actually I have only come over to the table because Jan is munching on a Snickers and I would like to have a photo of that. It takes me a moment to realise that all his chips are across the line, thus winning him my Most Nonchalant All-In Ever prize. Anyway, a short dwell from Mr Carvin later and they're on their backs.
Jan Sjavik -

Michel Carvin -

Board -

Mr Jan Sjavik - OUT. It wasn't a Marathon after all.

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Full chip counts at the end of Level 13, the first level we played today, courtesy of those good good people at Pokerstars.com:

ID    Player    Table    Seat     end level 13
604    Oyvind Riisem    9    5      430,000
207    Johnny Lodden    12    7      357,000
701    Andreas Hagen    3    9      324,000
806    Henrik Gwinner    8    6      286,000
1402    Noah Siegel    6    8      260,000
1507    Thomas Boekhoff    9    3      250,000
1602    Sorel Mizzi    1    10      250,000
1202    Luca Pagano    2    1      240,000
107    Amit Makhija    11    7      210,000
901    Stephen Kjaerstad    9    2      200,000
103    Benjamin Sprengers    10    5      195,100
203    Borge Dypvik    1    1      195,000
804    Glen Chorny    9    6      195,000
1303    Joe Hachem    5    9      195,000
1005    Csaba Toth    3    6      187,000
1506    Stig Top Rasmussen    11    3      185,000
708    Jesse Rockowitz    5    4      185,000
1004    Eric Liu    1    4      185,000
807    Martin Rask    12    3      182,000
305    Peter Traply    6    3      180,000
402    Vincent Secher    8    1      175,000
1003    Beniamino Speroni    12    8      167,000
905    Tommi Horkko    2    3      165,000
108    Maxime Villemure    4    2      163,000
805    Domenico Tinnirello    9    7      161,000
406    Antonio Esfandiari    12    1      160,000
906    Freddy Deeb    7    4      160,000
503    David Shade Kruger    2    2      155,000
1303    Joe Hachem    7    7      151,000
204    Isaac Andrew Baron    4    1      150,000
304    Woody Deck    2    5      150,000
501    Nikolaus Panopoulus    4    6      150,000
504    George Lind III    4    7      148,000
303    Robin Keston    2    4      145,000
105    Kenny Hallaert    3    7      144,600
1106    Claudio Pagano    2    7      135,000
1305    Neil Channing    8    9      135,000
703    Tom Stig Ahlberg    3    8      134,000
1601    Rami Boukai    2    8      133,000
1606    Jonathan Dwek    11    5      132,000
?    ??    11    6      130,000
1205    Michael Martin    4    9      130,000
1604    Giovanni Bigoni    10    2      128,200
608    Raymond Rahme    5    2      125,000
502    Raul Paez Corral    7    9      124,000
1306    Michel Carvin    9    9      123,000
1101    David Miara    9    8      122,000
208    Benjamin Kang    9    4      121,000
1107    Andreas Fluri    12    5      120,000
904    Pablo Ubierna    6    5      119,000
106    Morten Lokken    11    1      116,000
903    Haward Speer    4    5      112,000
1001    Rahal Kalil    5    7      112,000
202    Andrew Luetchford    11    4      110,000
602    Mostafa Belkhayate    10    3      110,000
1405    Christopher Convery    6    2      105,000
1203    Gerasimos Deres    3    5      105,000
1302    Pierre Hall    7    2      102,500
706    Simon Faure    3    2      102,000
1304    Sean Bruder    8    8      100,000
1103    Clayton Maguire    12    4      98,000
601    Ed de Haas    6    1      95,000
1504    Denes Kalo    2    6      94,000
1002    Brian Green    2    9      91,000
1605    Benjamin Sulsky    3    1      90,000
705    Kari Somer    7    3      88,000
1407    Mark Keightley    1    3      83,000
102    Jan Heitmann    10    1      81,100
403    Joseph Udine    9    1      81,000
505    Valeriy Ilikyan    8    7      80,000
1204    Thomas Fougeron    4    8      80,000
808    Alexander Morozov    4    4      75,000
404    Tomas Brolin    1    8      70,000
605    Alexia Portal    7    6      65,000
1006    Matthew Kurtz    1    6      63,000
306    Sami Ovaskainen    12    6      60,000
1105    Massou Cohen    1    7      57,000
1404    Eduards Kudrjavcevs    1    2      56,200
1502    Stefan Geim    5    3      53,700
506    Anders Hoyer Berg    3    4      52,000
206    Juris Bonders    1    5      51,000
408    William Martin    8    4      50,000
205    Walid Bou Habib    5    1      45,000
707    Ian Prevost    7    8      42,000
1104    Ricardo Sousa    7    5      40,000
1201    Nordine Bouya    6    4      39,900
101    Anthony Chatelain    12    2      39,000
704    Emile Petit    8    3      38,000
1503    Jan Olav Sjavik    10    7      36,000
307    Andrew Teng    11    2      35,000
405    Trond Erik Eidsvig    5    6      32,000
607    Giovanni Nervo    7    1      32,000
1008    Adam Sword    6    7      28,000
802    Enrico Mognaga    8    2      26,800
907    Christopher Klodnicki    10    4      25,500
1501    Torbjorn Jonson    6    9      21,800
1206    Surinder Sunar    5    8      19,000
1108    Mel Judah    1    9      15,500
1102    Felipe Ramos    5    5      10,000

4pm

Peter Tramply - 320k
Pierre Hall - 112.5k
Eric Liu - 188k
Robin Keston - 130k still

Snoopy spoke to Neil Channing - he's on around 70k. "I dropped about 100k to the guy on my right," - one Joe Hachem. "Apart from that, everything's great."

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Altercation between Woody Deck and Joe Hachem! There was a big crowd around the table - apparently Hachem lost a big pot which was checked on the river, and a few people wanted to see his cards, as they were entitled to do, seeing as it was checked on the river. Hachem refused to show, at which point I understand Woody Deck called him an asshole, at which point Hachem went loopy and stormed away from the table. The way Snoopy tells it, the phrase ,"Who do you think you are," may have been uttered...

4:03pm

Michael Martin - 300k
Surinder Sunar, to Micael's immediate left - just 10k, eek