Expekt.com Norwegian Poker Championships ME : Day One - Interactive

[Djinn]

It's now the (split) dinner break, incidentally, and so some recappage courtesy of the wonderful DTD player positioning and tracking service:

Players who are Busted:



209   Ingar Melby
210   Ismail Yusuf
211   Fredrik Stenrud
212   Eirik Kolaas
213   Barry Carter
214   Parham Alavi
215   Mohammed Khalid
216   Ben Callinan
217   Joakim Svindland Reistad
218   Arnt Ola Viken
219   Espen Uhlen
220   Jan Magnus Brevik
221   Arshad Hussain
222   Erling Hartviksen
223   Michael Jones
224   Steve Watkin
225   Spencer Lawrence
226   Arne Aarskog
227   Gunnar Øverberg
228   Jan Erik Iversen
229   Knut Arne Frøyen
230   Knut Rysstad
231   Andreas Bergh
232   Dag Martin Mikkelsen
233   Lucienne Rokach
234   Maria Demetriou
235   Andrew Andreou
236   Reyaaz Mulla
237   Paul King
238   Kjell Hanssen
239   Hans Thomas Karlsen
240   Kent Richard Bratvold
241   Joakim Prine Frogner
242   Kim Daniel Granneman
243   Fred- Bore Johannesen
244   Jan Svendsen
245   Farhad Amirzahiri
246   Jakob Brekken
247   David Johnson

[JungleCat03]

This for me is the archetype of a scandinavian player. Young, blonde, square-jawed, incredibly spikey hair, bright electric blue shirt open at the collar with more subdued jacket in attendance.




Very impressive sir, but please do not interrupt "Slicked back hair of the day" next time



 

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Something about Mary ?

Haha, yes that thought occurred to me also.

Like so?

Click to see full-size image.

[Djinn]

I am learning the names of hitherto unknown Norwegian players with the speed of one of those clever squid which learn mazes faster than human children (don't pretend you haven't ever watched a squid maze before).  Sooooo how about some CHIP COUNTS:

Daniel Steine -- 15,000
Mazhar Latif -- 36,300
Angelika Szlufarska -- 12,500
Andreas Hagen -- 7,800
Knut Petter Ryan -- 8,000
Fredrik Helness -- 11,000
Kjetil Kemi -- 6,100
Frode Lyhold-ronning -- 3,075
Lars Heldal Bakkevig -- 4,900
BA Kildalen -- 14,800
Acid Nilsen -- 9,800
Alf Brathen -- 4,700
Nick Gibson -- 21,000
Jorund Berstad -- 25,000
Jon Somby -- 7,000
Stephen Best -- 5,100
Knut Oddvar Silseth -- 8,350
Daniel Gulaker -- 11,000
Jan-Erik Sorensen -- 18,900
Askild Sjoeng Hansen -- 4,500
Kristoffer Ustad -- 12,375
William Bugodt -- 8,400
Per Erik Loff -- 8,500
Des Jonas -- 7,650
Karl Inge Skogholt -- 21,300

[Djinn]

Mick Jones is OUT - I got the lowdown from Nick Gibson, who is quite comfortably heading past the 20k mark and as chirpy as ever... He had K-Q, apparently, all in on a board.  Yep - the temporary nuts - taken down by Matey's which found another spade to bust him (he was already down to c. 5k, however).  "I want to be in the story," insists Nick.  "I had .  But I folded on the flop.  Want any more stories where I limp-fold?"

I politely declined, and left him to accumulate more chips.

[JungleCat03]

Ok, now someone way back when was asking for a closer view of the blonde dealers and to this end I bring you...

Blonde dealer one (+ bonus shot of back of gwibbo head - intentional obv)



Or perhaps you were making reference to blonde dealer two?



here we have Michael Greco, insisting his tablemates refer to him as Beppe (that's what Jen told me anyway...)



Finally, during my time as an updater, one of my trademark skills, which I beleive to be a unique abillity amongst the rest of the updaters is my propensity to take random pictures of objects as the camera takes a shot whilst tilted at a random angle.

(yes my equipment regularly goes off in my hand Kev)

Here is today's offering. I give you "Accidental shot of the day"

[Ironside]

Mick Jones is OUT - I got the lowdown from Nick Gibson, who is quite comfortably heading past the 20k mark and as chirpy as ever... He had K-Q, apparently, all in on a board.  Yep - the temporary nuts - taken down by Matey's which found another spade to bust him (he was already down to c. 5k, however).  "I want to be in the story," insists Nick.  "I had .  But I folded on the flop.  Want any more stories where I limp-fold?"

I politely declined, and left him to accumulate more chips.

i would call for a ruling with 2 in the deck

[Djinn]

Mick Jones is OUT - I got the lowdown from Nick Gibson, who is quite comfortably heading past the 20k mark and as chirpy as ever... He had K-Q, apparently, all in on a board.  Yep - the temporary nuts - taken down by Matey's which found another spade to bust him (he was already down to c. 5k, however).  "I want to be in the story," insists Nick.  "I had .  But I folded on the flop.  Want any more stories where I limp-fold?"

I politely declined, and left him to accumulate more chips.

i would call for a ruling with 2 in the deck

Actually he did.  It all kicked off - he asked for his money back, the other guy knocked both stacks over and then insisted he covered him... Eventually it was declared that he would get a refund but could no longer keep playing in the Championships.  The deck was then ritually burned.

[tikay]

Ok, now someone way back when was asking for a closer view of the blonde dealers and to this end I bring you...

Blonde dealer one (+ bonus shot of back of gwibbo head - intentional obv)



Or perhaps you were making reference to blonde dealer two?



here we have Michael Greco, insisting his tablemates refer to him as Beppe (that's what Jen told me anyway...)



Finally, during my time as an updater, one of my trademark skills, which I beleive to be a unique abillity amongst the rest of the updaters is my propensity to take random pictures of objects as the camera takes a shot whilst tilted at a random angle.

(yes my equipment regularly goes off in my hand Kev)

Here is today's offering. I give you "Accidental shot of the day"

The Dealer in the middle pic goes by the moniker of "Baby-Doll". She will appear on Sky Poker as a guest quite soon. I was attracted by her fine mind.

[boldie]

Would that be the middle of the 4 pics, Mr Kendall?

[MadTurk]

can  any 1 there help me please? my name seems to be appear  on tadays list but i m  suppose to  play tomorrrow  i tried to phone but answer phone comes on   can any 1  tell them that i dont play today   so there wont be problem for me thanks

Hey Madturk.

We have moved your name to tomorrows list.

Best of luck

thank  you so much

[Djinn]

Extra English person!

Daniel Ward!  Here he is, next to that popular lady.  He seemed reluctant to be fussed over, but that's probably because he's only got 5,025.  I'll go back when he's quadrupled up and he'll probably be happier to be updated on.



Sharing his table is this other lady, whom I think is Hanna Nilson -- 11,200, here demonstrating the finger positions for playing Streetfighter 2 when you don't know any of the moves (as taught to me by my brother).

Click to see full-size image.

[JungleCat03]

Des Jonas is OUT.

I saw him participating in one of the many, many cash games underway and he told me glumly his exit hand was T-T v 9-9.

"9 on the river" muttered Des sadly. Average bicep width of the tournament player's just dropped 2 inches, I thought whilst shaking my head in sympathy.


Fran just grabbed me as I walked past. She's playing tomorrow but has some more exciting plans for tonight.

"I need to get drunk in less than two hours...Can I do it?" she asked me imploringly.

If she was looking for someone to dissuade her from this course of action, she'd stumbled across the wrong cat...

"Definitely" I advised sagely. " I recommend pints of lager with whiskey shooters, works for me!"

"Hmm I don't like spirits. You think wine will do the job?"

"Absolutely! But stop wasting time talking to me and start drinking!" She took the cat's wisdom on board and was last seen rushing toward the bar yelling "Dry white please - LARGE!!!"

I'm thinking about going into counseling.

[AndrewT]

Sharing his table is this other lady, whom I think is Hanna Nilson -- 11,200, here demonstrating the finger positions for playing Streetfighter 2 when you don't know any of the moves (as taught to me by my brother).

Click to see full-size image.

Ah yes, she runs some Norwegian Poker association, and took a gang of Norwegies to APAT at Luton last year. Tikay was seemingly keen to establish closer relations between the respective associations.

[JungleCat03]

Or perhaps you were making reference to blonde dealer two?

The Dealer in the middle pic goes by the moniker of "Baby-Doll". She will appear on Sky Poker as a guest quite soon. I was attracted by her fine mind.

"Baby Doll" just sidled by the media zone and we had a quick chat...

She was delighted we had put a picture of her up, but once again my amateur photographic skills proved to be my undoing as she was saddened by the fact her eyes were closed in the snap.

Eager to make amends I snapped her again, this time without eyes wide shut.

Other than the lovely baby doll in the foreground though, was the exciting discovery of what appears to be an illicit affair occurring in the background.

"He's onto us! S**! I'm going to pretend to clean the table!"

It takes more than a spray and dirty cloth to pull the wool over Junglecat's eyes I'm afraid...

[Djinn]

Dave Smith Update...

He had previously made it up to the dizzy heights of 40k or thereabouts, and a Norwegian informer on his table told me how he'd headed there...

Early:  He raised to 275 in Level One with J-J, flopped a flop, bet pot, called by Matey.  The turn brought an offsuit Q... check from the behatted one, call of Matey's 2k.  River:  2 (or similar) - and again, a check call of 4k won him a tidy early pot.

Mid:  A Mick-Fletcher-y Flopped Nuts Matey (T-J on a 9-Q-K board) bet out into Smith's Q-9, received a small raise, threebet it and received a call.  A Nine on the turn saw the straight FNM betting again, and then getting moved all-in on.  It wasn't too much more, and the call and stack went to Smith.

Later:  A board of saw AK 56 and K5 (Smith's) get involved, as one might expect.  The Ace-King was the only hand to pass as top'n'bottom pair stacked bottom-two for another rise in chip towers.

SO another meteoric start for the local - will he keep hold of it through the next four days?