PokerStars EPT Monte Carlo: Day 4 - Interactive

[Djinn]

Chip leader Antonio Esfandiari showing off his monster stack:

Something tells me that Antonio might be joining the photoshop queue for Dana's zombie pic.

Antonio Esfandiari showing off his chip skillz.  The camera loves him, but Claudio Pagano has seen it all before...

Incidentally, can any of you viewing do this trick?  I don't think my hands can be trained.  I've tried.

[danafish]

Lame Blind-On-Blind Limp/Checkage Turns Into Quite Big And Aggressively Played Pot Shocker

I think people take my posts more seriously if I put tabloid-style headings on them.

Anyway, Stig Rasmussen limps from the small blind and Antonio Esfandiari checks the big blind.

Flop - - and Rasmussen bets 10k. Antonio calls.

Turn - and now Rasmussen bets a WHOPPING (I said a WHOPPING) 60k. Antonio calls.

River - - Rasmussen sort of gives up and checks. Antonio bets an UNBELIEVABLE!!! 150k or so. Mr Rasmussen half-laughs in a way that suggests that if he doesn't, he might cry. "I can't call," says he. And instead he does the other thing you're allowed to do, the one that isn't calling, but rather is folding.

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Antonio Esfandiari has the freedom!




...The freedom not to wear shoes in a public place!

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He only brought slippers with him anyway.

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[marcmacd]

Antonio Esfandiari showing off his chip skillz.  The camera loves him, but Claudio Pagano has seen it all before...

Incidentally, can any of you viewing do this trick?  I don't think my hands can be trained.  I've tried.

I can do this one, it gets easier once sum1 shows you how to do it

[danafish]

Creative Backward-Sitter Of The Day -

Mr Stefan Geim

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[danafish]

TV Table Of The Day

- featuring in a standy-uppy position my mad scientist/health spa escapee Of The Day, Mr Vincent Secher.

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[jpean]

how is the Frenchie David Miara ?

a photo please ?

[snoopy1239]

Just for a change, I decide just to keep track of one table and see how the action panned out. After watching a few hands, one thing that I noticed was that no one received a walk, and rarely would a raise go by without another player re-raising behind. The first hand I witnessed involved Johnny Lodden and David Miara, the combination of which had created a 150k pot. With the board reading 2h-5h-2s, David took it down with a suspicious 80k bet.

Believing that most of hands I was about witness would follow a similar pattern, the very next hand we were treated to a double through. With big stacker Noel Siegal raising it up to 22k from the button, an inevitable move considering the lesser stacks of the blinds, Amit Makhija passed and Walid Bou Habib called. On the Tc-5s-6c Flop, it all kicked of, Walid check-calling an all-in from Seigal who had nonchalantly made the gesture with a mere wave of his hand.

After Siegal revealed a vulnerable Pocket Twos, Walid punched the air and showed 8c-5c. "Yes!" he exclaimed, if a little premature. However, the Poker Gods didn't spit in his face, the Ace of Clubs on the Turn sealing the deal and making the River academic. In victory, Walid leapt over to the rail to shake the hand of a fan in the crowd before returning to his seat jubilant. Siegal, meanwhile, remained calm, simply asking "how much?" and handing over the wonga. Still on 800k, Siegal remains in great shape, but will still be disheartened to have doubled Walid up to 265k and made him more of a threat than he previously was.

[snoopy1239]

Pablo Ubierna is OUT. He made a move with 7-2 on a J-T-J Flop on the TV table, but was swiftly looked up by Luca Pagano who had J-9.

[Djinn]

I caught this pot from where it wildly escalated (in a way reminiscent of Danafish's last post)...

Threeway on the turn, the board:  ...  Looks like Mr. Liu might have started this all off after Stig Top Rasmussen checked in the big blind.  But Isaac Baron (pictured) ran with it, raising to 125k.  Back to Rasmussen, who did the second part of the checkraise to the tune of a further 160k.  Liu (if he was in this at all, which I  think he was but can't be sure - lots of tall people in my way) left it, but when it got back to Baron, he thought for a little while, and then moved all in!  A ripple of excitement went through his railers, and everyone, it appeared, except Isaac, who remained totally impassive.

Rasmussen, on the other hand (having rollercoastered today a little bit, and currently on the down part) stood up, crouched behind his chair, stood up again, ran a tortured hand across his face and dwelled until he had the clock called on him.

[Amusing Esfandiari/Frazer aside:  TD Steve Frazer talked him through his one-minute-to-decide in a very clear, firm way, at which Antonio goes, "Very professional."  He replies, just as seriously, "Thank you.  I practice in front of a mirror."]

Back to Rasmussen who has 160k to call, and has around 350 behind.  Whispers behind me indicated the general impression that folding wasn't an option, but it was, and he took it. 

[Djinn]

Peter Traply finishes in 26th.... We thought it was safe to leave and write about stuff in the press room with 1 min to go until the break.  But it wasn't, so we don't have any hand details.  Sorry.  He gets € 42,100, though. 

[snoopy1239]

Back on Table Lodden, the action continued with Lodden himself, raising to 52k pre-flop but briskly folding to an all-in from Amit Makhija on the button. The next hand, Wallid Bou Habib himself folded to a pre-flop re-raise from David Miara, the Frenchman's raise to 110k making it to much for Walid to play. Then, a hand or two later, Glen Chorny proudly showed a bluff to the crowd, his 60k on the River of a 8d-Jc-3h-Ks-2h forcing David Miara to fold. Chorny showed 7c-4c.

[danafish]

Mr Raymond Rahme was getting bullied. He bet out 24k on a board, but passed when Johnny Lodden made it another 50k.

I lost interest in that table, and moved over to where there was a board out, and Stig Rasmussen was betting 40k. Eric Liu was calling him. The river came the and they checked it - Stig showed , and Eric Liu nodded impassively and mucked. Then Stig went a bit crazy. "Oh my God!!! Why can't a Queen come high? Why can't a Queen come high? I don't believe it!!!"

Obviously I am busy scribbling down this outburst, so I don't notice that across the way, Mr Raymond Rahme is all in, and, indeed, busted out, courtesy of Mr Frenchie David Miara (who I've been accidentally calling Midori in my notes like the melon liqueur; sorry Miara fans). Like I said, I was distracted - shame on me! - but I believe it may have been the ol' Kings v Aces. Either way, Mr Raymond Rahme is OUT, like so:

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how is the Frenchie David Miara ?

a photo please ?

Er, yes, that photo was dedicated to jpean.

[snoopy1239]

The players have just come to the end of a short fifteen minute break. Play is due to start very shortly.

[jpean]

Obviously I am busy scribbling down this outburst, so I don't notice that across the way, Mr Raymond Rahme is all in, and, indeed, busted out, courtesy of Mr Frenchie David Miara (who I've been accidentally calling Midori in my notes like the melon liqueur; sorry Miara fans). Like I said, I was distracted - shame on me! - but I believe it may have been the ol' Kings v Aces. Either way, Mr Raymond Rahme is OUT, like so:

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how is the Frenchie David Miara ?

a photo please ?

Er, yes, that photo was dedicated to jpean.

thanks Dana 


 

[jpean]

Damn !

I'm watching EPTLive in French to have French commentaries and who is speaking with the commentator ? Barry greenstein in ENGLISH