Pokerstars.com EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final - Day 3 - At A Glance

[Djinn]

Welcome back to the Grand Final of the Pokerstars.com EPT Poker Tournament Which Breaks European Records!

We'll be live reporting on this, the non-nteractive thread, as well as its interactive cousin from 1pm (12pm UK time): http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=32879.0

The team will do our best to find your friends/people you want for some reason to hear about, and not even the mighty Thomas Kremser will get in our way!

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[danafish]

By the way blondeites, please please get your requestaments in early as we'll have a full seating plan (probably in the morning at this rate) and it's much easier to find people we don't know when we have a reliable location for them than when we have to rely on doodles etc later on...

[danafish]

Chip counts and seating plan, from the lovely Mad Harper. No more pie charts yet.


Name   Table   Seat   Chips
Oyvind Riisem   6   4   441,400
Johnny Lodden   2   7   380,300
Borge Dypvik   2   3   296,000
Andreas Hagen   7   1   276,800
Joe Hachem   13   3   255,300
James Campbell   13   1   241,700
Luca Pagano   12   2   229,000
Amit Makhija   1   7   219,100
Andreas Fluri   11   7   205,900
Sorel Mizzi   16   2   203,200
Martin Rask   8   7   188,200
Thomas Boekhoff   15   7   186,400
Benjamin Kang   2   8   179,900
Maxime Villemure   1   8   177,000
Rami Boukai   16   1   176,200
Noah Siegel   14   2   174,300
Gordon Vayo   14   1   171,000
Eric Liu   10   4   169,100
Raul Paez Corral   5   2   163,200
Henrik Gwinner   8   6   162,200
Alex Repik   15   5   161,700
Domenico Tinnirello   8   5   161,000
Freddy Deeb   9   6   153,300
David Shade Kruger   5   3   153,100
Cyril Bensoussan   6   6   149,100
Woody Deck   3   4   147,800
Tommi Horkko   9   5   145,500
Benjamin Sprengers   1   3   144,300
Vincent Secher   4   2   143,100
Kenny Hallaert   1   5   142,900
David Miara   11   1   139,900
Isaac Andrew Baron   2   4   137,800
Stig Top Rasmussen   15   6   137,600
Rahal Kalil   10   1   137,100
Michael Martin   12   5   136,800
Eduards Kudrjavcevs   14   4   136,000
Beniamino Speroni   10   3   133,200
Robin Keston   3   3   131,600
Brian Green   10   2   131,200
Tom Stig Ahlberg   7   3   130,000
Marcel Luske   8   1   128,700
Michel Carvin   13   6   126,800
Benjamin Sulsky   16   5   122,500
Antonio Esfandiari   4   6   121,400
Claudio Pagano   11   6   121,300
Glen Chorny   8   4   115,100
Stephen Kjaerstad   9   1   112,700
Csaba Toth   10   5   112,100
Morten Lokken   1   6   111,100
Raymond Rahme   6   8   104,200
Sean Bruder   13   4   102,200
Giovanni Bigoni   16   4   101,800
Andrew Luetchford   2   2   101,100
Peter Traply   3   5   100,700
Uffe Holm   9   8   99,800
Massou Cohen   11   5   99,800
Neil Channing   13   5   99,500
Stuart Michel Fox   3   1   99,100
Christopher Convery   14   5   96,800
Matthew Kurtz   10   6   96,500
Nikolaus Panopoulus   5   1   92,000
Mark Keightley   14   7   91,000
Felipe Ramos   11   2   87,900
Haward Speer   9   3   87,100
Mostafa Belkhayate   6   2   86,600
Ed de Haas   6   1   82,100
Juris Bonders   2   6   82,000
Simon Faure   7   6   81,300
Eliahu Ilan Elezra   16   7   77,500
Pierre Hall   13   2   76,400
Alexia Portal   6   5   76,300
Pablo Ubierna   9   4   71,400
Enrico Mognaga   8   2   68,600
Sami Ovaskainen   3   6   67,600
Christopher Klodnicki   9   7   66,700
Jan Heitmann   1   2   63,400
Tomas Brolin   4   4   62,600
Gerasimos Deres   12   3   59,900
Anthony Chatelain   1   1   59,000
Christoph Niesert   12   7   59,000
Anders Hoyer Berg   5   6   58,100
Thomas Fougeron   12   4   58,000
Alexander Morozov   8   8   55,500
Giovanni Nervo   6   7   55,300
Nordine Bouya   12   1   53,300
William Martin   4   8   52,800
Emile Petit   7   4   52,700
Sasha Rosewood   13   7   52,700
Clayton Maguire   11   3   52,600
Denes Kalo   15   4   51,700
Valeriy Ilikyan   5   5   51,600
Surinder Sunar   12   6   51,600
Anna Wroblewski   5   7   51,200
Jesse Rockowitz   7   8   50,400
Trond Erik Eidsvig   4   5   50,000
Connor Drinan    3   2   49,900
Leonardo Fernandez   3   8   47,600
Pawel Chmiel   9   2   44,700
Kari Somer   7   5   44,100
Joseph Udine   4   3   43,900
Alexander Kravchenko   1   4   42,200
Andreas Sarling   6   3   42,200
Ian Prevost   7   7   39,900
Anders Vind   12   8   36,700
Ricardo Sousa   11   4   36,500
Raoul Refos   14   3   36,200
Eric Da Silva   10   7   36,000
Andrew Teng   3   7   32,900
Alex Jalali   2   1   32,000
Sebastian Zink   16   3   31,200
Adam Sword   10   8   30,000
Edward Lawson   14   6   30,000
Stefan Geim   15   2   29,300
Walid Bou Habib   2   5   28,700
James Byrne   5   8   27,900
Nadir Jorephani   4   7   25,300
Derek Van Damme   7   2   25,100
Jan Olav Sjavik   15   3   23,900
Michaele Lau   8   3   20,300
Torbjorn Jonson   15   1   20,100
Mel Judah   11   8   19,300
Jonathan Dwek   16   6   14,200
George Lind III   5   4   14,100
Philippe Ktorza   4   1   9,200

[danafish]

And by table:

Name   Table   Seat   Chips
Anthony Chatelain   1   1   59000
Jan Heitmann   1   2   63400
Benjamin Sprengers   1   3   144300
Alexander Kravchenko   1   4   42200
Kenny Hallaert   1   5   142900
Morten Lokken   1   6   111100
Amit Makhija   1   7   219100
Maxime Villemure   1   8   177000
Alex Jalali   2   1   32000

Andrew Luetchford   2   2   101100
Borge Dypvik   2   3   296000
Isaac Andrew Baron   2   4   137800
Walid Bou Habib   2   5   28700
Juris Bonders   2   6   82000
Johnny Lodden   2   7   380300
Benjamin Kang   2   8   179900

Stuart Michel Fox   3   1   99100
Connor Drinan    3   2   49900
Robin Keston   3   3   131600
Woody Deck   3   4   147800
Peter Traply   3   5   100700
Sami Ovaskainen   3   6   67600
Andrew Teng   3   7   32900
Leonardo Fernandez   3   8   47600

Philippe Ktorza   4   1   9200
Vincent Secher   4   2   143100
Joseph Udine   4   3   43900
Tomas Brolin   4   4   62600
Trond Erik Eidsvig   4   5   50000
Antonio Esfandiari   4   6   121400
Nadir Jorephani   4   7   25300
William Martin   4   8   52800

Nikolaus Panopoulus   5   1   92000
Raul Paez Corral   5   2   163200
David Shade Kruger   5   3   153100
George Lind III   5   4   14100
Valeriy Ilikyan   5   5   51600
Anders Hoyer Berg   5   6   58100
Anna Wroblewski   5   7   51200
James Byrne   5   8   27900

Ed de Haas   6   1   82100
Mostafa Belkhayate   6   2   86600
Andreas Sarling   6   3   42200
Oyvind Riisem   6   4   441400
Alexia Portal   6   5   76300
Cyril Bensoussan   6   6   149100
Giovanni Nervo   6   7   55300
Raymond Rahme   6   8   104200

Andreas Hagen   7   1   276800
Derek Van Damme   7   2   25100
Tom Stig Ahlberg   7   3   130000
Emile Petit   7   4   52700
Kari Somer   7   5   44100
Simon Faure   7   6   81300
Ian Prevost   7   7   39900
Jesse Rockowitz   7   8   50400

Marcel Luske   8   1   128700
Enrico Mognaga   8   2   68600
Michaele Lau   8   3   20300
Glen Chorny   8   4   115100
Domenico Tinnirello   8   5   161000
Henrik Gwinner   8   6   162200
Martin Rask   8   7   188200
Alexander Morozov   8   8   55500

Stephen Kjaerstad   9   1   112700
Pawel Chmiel   9   2   44700
Haward Speer   9   3   87100
Pablo Ubierna   9   4   71400
Tommi Horkko   9   5   145500
Freddy Deeb   9   6   153300
Christopher Klodnicki   9   7   66700
Uffe Holm   9   8   99800

Rahal Kalil   10   1   137100
Brian Green   10   2   131200
Beniamino Speroni   10   3   133200
Eric Liu   10   4   169100
Csaba Toth   10   5   112100
Matthew Kurtz   10   6   96500
Eric Da Silva   10   7   36000
Adam Sword   10   8   30000

David Miara   11   1   139900
Felipe Ramos   11   2   87900
Clayton Maguire   11   3   52600
Ricardo Sousa   11   4   36500
Massou Cohen   11   5   99800
Claudio Pagano   11   6   121300
Andreas Fluri   11   7   205900
Mel Judah   11   8   19300

Nordine Bouya   12   1   53300
Luca Pagano   12   2   229000
Gerasimos Deres   12   3   59900
Thomas Fougeron   12   4   58000
Michael Martin   12   5   136800
Surinder Sunar   12   6   51600
Christoph Niesert   12   7   59000
Anders Vind   12   8   36700

James Campbell   13   1   241700
Pierre Hall   13   2   76400
Joe Hachem   13   3   255300
Sean Bruder   13   4   102200
Neil Channing   13   5   99500
Michel Carvin   13   6   126800
Sasha Rosewood   13   7   52700

Gordon Vayo   14   1   171000
Noah Siegel   14   2   174300
Raoul Refos   14   3   36200
Eduards Kudrjavcevs   14   4   136000
Christopher Convery   14   5   96800
Edward Lawson   14   6   30000
Mark Keightley   14   7   91000

Torbjorn Jonson   15   1   20100
Stefan Geim   15   2   29300
Jan Olav Sjavik   15   3   23900
Denes Kalo   15   4   51700
Alex Repik   15   5   161700
Stig Top Rasmussen   15   6   137600
Thomas Boekhoff   15   7   186400

Rami Boukai   16   1   176200
Sorel Mizzi   16   2   203200
Sebastian Zink   16   3   31200
Giovanni Bigoni   16   4   101800
Benjamin Sulsky   16   5   122500
Jonathan Dwek   16   6   14200
Eliahu Ilan Elezra   16   7   77500

[Djinn]

There hasn't been the flurry of lemming-like all-ins we have almost come to expect from a later-day-in-tournament start.  Quite the opposite, everyone* is playing a thoughtful, considered game, and as a result there is a more hushed atmosphere, with some serious-faced hand-shaking of the table when people get eliminated.

There also seems to be a lot of Day Three Syndrome Floplessness, as re-raises take pots down from the continual raisers - like Oyvind Riisem, whose stack is of phenomenal size and doesn't seem to have been coloured up at all.  He kind of has to keep his elbows pointing out to the sides to get his hands in position to check his cards, which makes me think that keeping the tables eight-handed was definitely a good idea.


*Well, obviously not everyone, but the majority seem to be
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One pot which threatened to become very large saw Eric Liu on the cutoff betting 19k into a pot which had somehow become 36k preflop (sorry I missed that bit) on a flop of and Csaba Toth raising on the button, to 41,400.  A serious-faced Liu considered whether to tangle with his fairly deep-stacked neighbour further, before deciding against it.  He still has 135k, though.

[danafish]

Mr Marcel Luske is OUT. All we saw was the Marcel-standing-up-while-Glen-Chorny-rakes-in-his-chips bit, I'm afraid, but one thing we know for certain is that the Dutchman will be flying home tonight. Or possibly staying in lovely sunny Monte Carlo for a few more days, but I think I've made my puntastic point.

[snoopy1239]

With most Day 3s, the opening level is normally the Level of Death with shortstacks pushing left, right and centre. However, on this occassion, this hasn't necessarily been the case. I don't know if it's because of the 15k starting stack, the generous 90 minute levels or the mouth-watering prizepool up for grabs, but the action hasn't been as fast paced as previous EPT's would suggest. Having said that, there were a few unhappy faces, Philippe Ktorza and the  wonderfully named Derek Van Damme both frog splashing (pun there for a very niche audience) their way out of the event within the first thirty minutes.

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One man who suffered the wrath of the Poker Gods early doors was former Israeli army officer (deactivate smug mode for knowing pointless trivia) Eli Elezra. Short-stacked and praying for a hand, he found two cowboys grinning back at him and quickly pushed all-in. Across the table, an even short-stacked Joseph Udine picked up Pocket Snowmen and decided to take a stab. In seemingly good shape, Eli was all smiles and confident of victory, but his smile was soon wiped off his face as a stomach-churning 8-J-3 hit the Flop to leave Eli praying for one of two outs. As Vincent Secher begrudged his misfortune of releasing Pocket Jacks pre-flop, the dealer continued to deal out the rest of the board, the raggy Five and Ten Turn and River leaving Eli down to the felt. Udine, meanwhile, walked briefly away from the table, quietly celebrated, and returned with a restrained grin.

A few hands later, Eli was smiling once again and entertaining his neighbour and fellow High Stakes Poker star Antonio Esfandiair. In response to the banter, Antonio added, "Why do I have so much fun when you're at the table, Eli?"

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Andreas Fluri found Jacks and moved in his stacks.

A-7 had Clayton Maguire, so an Ace he did require.

The bullet on the River left Andreas in a tither, or should that be Fluri in a fury.

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Pablo Erbiana nearly had to be restrained, his roar of delight as his Jacks held up against Uffe Holm's A-Q being heard across the breadth of the room.

Meanwhile, Jan Sjavik was left shaking his head when his A-K failed to hold up against Stefan Gelm's Q-Js on a J-7-5-6-8 board.

[danafish]

Stuart Fox makes it 6k from one off the cutoff, only for Connor Drinan on the actual cutoff to make it All In for 45.5k. And it's pretty poor timing from Connor - Foxy does eventually fold, but not until after big blind Peter Traply wakes up with Aces and calls.

Traply -
Drinan -

Nice flop for Drinan, nice turn and river for Traply:

Meaning that Mr Connor Drinan is OUT.

[danafish]

However subdued the start may have been, in recent minutes it's been insanity here!



One level in and about a third of our remaining field has exploded, all this without the average stack ever dropping below 50 big blinds. Nutters.

[Djinn]

We've hit the first break and the third table break.  Some counts as they all headed for a brief dose of sunshine:

Robin Keston -- 130k
Matthew Kurtz -- 68k
Michael Martin -- 142k
Benjamin Sulsky -- 88k
Glen Chorny -- 220k
Andrew Teng -- 40k
Woody Deck -- 151k
Trond Eidsvig -- 38k
Antonio Esfandiari -- 150k
Alexia Portal -- 66k
Neil Channing -- 145k
Jan Sjavik -- 41k
Surinder Sunar -- 25k

[Djinn]

Eli Elezra Exits Eliciting Eidsvig Excitement

It looks like Trond Eidsvig raised preflop, and found Eli Elezra pushing all in for a short stack of 35k behind him.  Then Vincent Secher flat called, which was clearly a surprise to both of them...

Trond tortures himself for a while (his own stack a not too healthy 45k or so) and laments:  "I get all these decisions - why?"
He thinks it through, though:  "You flat call 35k.  Why?"  He growls a bit and stands up, hands behind head.
"I want the overcall!" pipes up Elezra, but Trond was right to smell a rat and get out of the way, as Secher flipped the and promptly eliminated the American.

[danafish]

Recent things I posted on the Makeshift Blog.

By the way, if blonde goes down again, you can still follow the updates at a makeshift blog I set up - it's at http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/ - bookmark it now!


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

[danafish]

Ok, seriously, my friends, this server thing is beyond a joke.

We will continue to attempt to update on here when possible, but I urge you, please bookmark http://blondeupdates.blogspot.com/

That is where we will be if (or more likely when) the server goes down again.

 

[Djinn]

***********Old Stories I only Just Now can Post on Here**********


The wonderfully named Peter Traply gets involved with Robin Keston, betting out on a flop only to find Kestion raising him another 13,900.  He flat calls.  They both check the turn, but Traply fires 38k on the river which is enough to see off his opponent.


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Neil Channing is no longer in the tournament – spotted in the hallway with the somewhat surprised look of someone who has busted when he hasn’t had much recent experience of busting. Sorry mullacott etc. He can’t win ‘em all.
Also Not In but were at start of day---

Anna Wroblewski
Eli Elezra
Stuart Fox
Five full tables of players. Chip counts of remaining players on their way.

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Two to go until the money, when everyone will breathe more easily and we will be free to wander betwixt the tables gathering information like lovely spring flowers once again.  Players on a 10 min break.

[Djinn]

Also hitting the rail just outside the Cash Zone was Frenchman Thomas Fougeron, whom I saw giving a TV interview in the hallway.  We are at the bubble proper right now, 81 players left, 80 getting paid, so Steve Frazer is announcing every all in to the room, which is dealing hand for hand.  There were no fewer than five all-ins called while I was peering over from the rail just now, but each time it was the short stack who doubled up.  Most recent one:  Denes Kalo, all in with vs. .  I thought one of the players was having a super lengthy dwell, but they were actually holding until the film crew could get to the table, seeing how long the all-in player could stand the tension with the hands face down before screaming and throwing the table over.*

*Not true.

Fougeron:  Flying the French Flag no longer

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