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

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[boldie]

Evening JP..don't tell me you just woke up again?

[jpean]

Evening JP..don't tell me you just woke up again?

lol no... these day I wake up around 2pm...

but it's because I often work at night...

[boldie]

Evening JP..don't tell me you just woke up again?

lol no... these day I wake up around 2pm...

. It's a hard life you live, my friend.

[Djinn]

And having sounded so optimistic about Mr. Neville, I now have to report some worse news.  From the man himself:  "I made a squeeze play."  Uh-oh, I think, this didn't end well, considering as you're now standing up by the side of the table with no visible stack.

"There was a raise to 600, a flat call, then a raise to 2,500.  I'm in the big blind with Fives.  I push all in for 10k.  The first guy passes but the second one dwells up for like two minutes with Jacks!"  There was even a glimmer of postflop hope: "The flop was 4-6-7 - I'm anything..." he trails off wistfully as he relives his draw missing, but doesn't seem to despondent overall.

[JungleCat03]

Paul Gourlay just tangled with the archetypal scandinavian, who unfortunately I have yet to learn the correct name of...

I joined the action on  the river of an board and our spikey haired new friend had just bet out 3k...Paul thought for a while before reluctantly calling, only to be shown A-2 for 2 pair, which was good...

"Did you have K-J?" enquired the man wearing the blonde porcupine...

"I 'ad a better ehs than that!" countered Paul a tad sulkily, admitting a worse hand than that which was inferred by the human version of Sonic the Hedgehog, who coolly swept up his chips into his stack without ruffling his neatly ironed blue shirt,

[londonpokergirl]

Given my status as blonde's most inept photographer, Jen deigned to take me under her wing and show me how to take a photo without giving the impression I'm a moron (uphill task...)

The brief tutorial though turned into an opportunity for the Norwegians behind us to showcase their skills as casual entertainers and I feel they did a great job tbh.

Watch out Jen, they're going to grab you!!!!

guy with ginger hair on left is Jostein Petterson from Norway Poker News , say hi tohim for me please

[Djinn]

BA Kildalen and Alan Stearn have been in a couple of confrontations in a row just now.  Neither of them are even heading towards short stacked, and there could have been fireworks potentially on either of these... but instead... oh you'll see. 

HAND 1:

Small blind Stearn raises big blind Kildalen +900 (at the tail end of the 150/300/25 blind level).  Call.
Flop:    Stearn bets out 1,500, and finds a pretty immediate raise to 4,500.  He thinks for a good while before passing - and is shown for his inner torment.

HAND 2:

Button Stearn limps, small blind BA limps and there's no raise.  The flop comes:    Check to Stearn who bets 1,400 and picks up BA as a caller (just can't shake him).  The turn is a double-checked .  The river brings the , and a 2,075 bet out from the behatted Norwegian.  Another wearyish pass, but again he's rewarded by a glimpse of the in BA's hand.  So much showing of the cards...and they've been pretty good...now when he raises with 6-2 utg he might get some undeserved respect...

[JungleCat03]

I post this picture not (only) because it contains some girl on girl massage action. This was far from my mind but moreso because there is an interesting....

....who am i kidding. Enjoy the girls guys.

[Djinn]

Anthony Nicholls:  Your Story Continues, in what is actually a series of the most dramatic hands seen tonight (by us, anyway):

M*** Mc**** raises to 1,200 pre.  Anthony Nicholls re-raises to 4,200.  Call.
Flop:  6-2-3  Nicholls bet 2k... and found McC. moving all-in for around 25,000!  Call.
Nicholls shows: 
McC shows:  A-5
Turn....2 river....   .....     .....        .........  4.    Down to just 600 chips, and it all looked a little bleak.  THEN [ctd. next post]

[Djinn]

Two hands later, and he's all in against two players.  He's standing up, looking at a flop of and despairing as the side action kicks off.  Vidar Sabbasen has bet out 2,025, and Andreas Berge (the spiky haired one, we reckon) has raised to 6,525.  A long think...then Sabbasen moves in.  The think now belongs to Berge, who gets very animated, saying "In a cash game I instacall.  Instacall."  He calls, but not insta.

On their backs!

Anthony Nicholls (despairing): 
Vidar Sabbasen (anxious): 
Andreas Berge (also anxious, and covered, just): 

Turn: 
River: 

Giving Anthony Nicholls the side pot of just over 2k, and knocking one of the Norwegians to the felt.

P.S. Literally seconds ago, Nicholls busted, called blind by 9-2 when he held T-J.  "At least I got to play one hand on the feature table...."

[JungleCat03]

Way to bok Egil by me. Shortly after that mini bio I wrote, he lost his short stack...

What was quite touching was as he lost the remainder of his chips, there was a round of applause from the rest of the table, marking the occasion of his exit. This wasn't unique to Egil simply because he is a Norwegian personality though. Most of the players' exits have been treated in this respectful fashion by the Norwegian players, which I think is a great little tradition that we would do well to introduce into our game over here, but probably never will!

Here is Egil leaving...

[JungleCat03]

Two hands later, and he's all in against two players.  He's standing up, looking at a flop of and despairing as the side action kicks off.  Vidar Sabbasen has bet out 2,025, and Andreas Berge (the spiky haired one, we reckon) has raised to 6,525.  A long think...then Sabbasen moves in.  The think now belongs to Berge, who gets very animated, saying "In a cash game I instacall.  Instacall."  He calls, but not insta.

On their backs!

Anthony Nicholls (despairing): 
Vidar Sabbasen (anxious): 
Andreas Berge (also anxious, and covered, just): 

Turn: 
River: 

Giving Anthony Nicholls the side pot of just over 2k, and knocking one of the Norwegians to the felt.

P.S. Literally seconds ago, Nicholls busted, called blind by 9-2 when he held T-J.  "At least I got to play one hand on the feature table...."

Here is the spiky Andreas, leaning over anxiously to see if Vidar has a set or not, after calling with his flush draw...



Er, you're about to be disappointed BUT...

...NOT as disappointed as Vidar as you hit your flush.

How is this picture for a stark delineation of emotion between pain and glory! guess who hit their flush and who had their set busted....

[Djinn]

CLIMBER OF THE DAY

Although we're just about to have our Level Seven break here, and there are still two long hours of hard-fought poker to get through before this award can be confirmed - I would like to suggest Julian Thew for our climber of the day. 

Early in the day it did look bad for him, but once again, he has turned some into many - approximately 45,000 (full counts coming after the break).  He's featured, actually, so those of you watching the feed will be able to watch him in action - no - wait, he's just been moved off somewhere.  Dave Smith appears to have filled in the gap on the TV table.  You know that the Norwegians vote on which table they want to cycle through the TV table next... maybe they voted Julian off like on Big Brother....

[Djinn]

Chip Counts:

Joachim Lundgård Thorkildsen   22   6   97325
Bjørnar Koss   34   8   73100
Lasse Lien   23   3   70075
Barlien Sondre   23   8   56525
Geir Lian   22   9   55650
Kim Rud Pedersen   24   9   52650
Andreas Berge   21   9   51725
Bjørn Andre Kildalen   32   8   50950
Julian Thew   23   5   44875
Platten Daniel   35   7   41125
Kim-ove Hagerup   35   6   40575
Jan Roger Larsen   35   5   40175
Michael Greco   26   5   38250
Martin Gudvangen   24   1   37900
Arne Kristian Falkenhaug   22   7   37825
Bjørn Andre Hovden   21   6   36975
Kristoffer Ustad   36   5   35825
Michael Mccool   26   2   35650
Waheed Ashraf   23   9   34825
Erik Borkvik   36   8   34275
Ivar Borthen   22   3   34225
Liaquat Javed   26   9   34100
Edvard Hatle   25   6   32725
Brede Sandkjernan   33   2   32600
Daniel Steine   34   1   32550
Daniel Rudd   22   8   32550
Therse Andersen   37   4   32200
Marius Grotan   26   1   32075
Eirik Svanes   23   7   31675
Pål Knudsen   34   7   31075
Andre Hansen   34   3   30150
Paul Gourlay   33   8   30050
Peter Lars Micael Lindstrom   36   6   28250
Acid Nilsen   37   2   28000
David Smith   32   3   27925
Yngvi Bjarnason   24   5   27450
Kenneth Strandli   33   7   27400
John Stanley   25   1   26875
Daniel Gulaker   37   9   25900
Frode Hoel   35   9   25750
James Keys   32   2   25700
Paul Valle   36   2   25525
Jarle Utne   26   7   25325
Richard Larsen   33   9   25200
Mads Aamot   37   3   25000
Christian Berland   21   2   24925
Erik Kindlien   26   6   24550
Bjorn August Lindback   21   7   24500
Glenn Anders Karlsen   33   5   23600
Lars Heldal Bakkevig   34   9   22325
Ken-vidar Sara   35   3   22000
Kristian Heimstad   34   6   21950
Carsten Syvertsen   33   3   20950
Paul Newman   25   7   19800
Jon Somby   37   6   19600
Lars Gaustad   23   6   18775
Martin Rasch   22   4   18725
Kai Danilo Paulsen   26   3   18525
Alf- Eirik Klinge   22   1   18525
Jørund Berstad   37   5   18400
Daniel Molund   25   9   18250
Tage Skare   35   1   17650
Mazhar Latif   34   2   16950
Peter Conduit   32   9   16800
Lars Sverre Wik   25   8   16600
Chriss Jonassen   24   6   15600
Ivar Kleive Voll   33   6   14775
Andreas Forshaug   33   1   14150
William Bugodt   21   1   14075
Borge Sandsgaard   36   1   14050
Kjetil Skau   33   4   13800
Asbjørn Lunde   22   5   13650
Sven Hugo Vian   24   2   12725
Gary Christopher   35   8   12550
Lars Farstad   25   5   12175
Håvard Holder   24   7   12100
Stian Bruheim   34   5   12100
Bjørnar Thomassen   37   1   11850
Magnus Skumsnes   32   4   10800
Jarle Haug   32   6   10750
Anders Brenden   36   7   10600
Alan Stearn   32   7   9700
Geir Ståle Plassen   25   4   9650
Karl Inge Skogholt   23   2   9600
Ole Morten Melby   35   4   9350
Andre Alvarez Brobakken   21   8   9275
Trond-arild Elvan   32   5   8925
Fredrik Alexander Skalmeraas   21   3   8750
Germund Volden   25   3   8650
Frank Porturas   22   2   8150
Stephen Best   37   7   7575
Pal Kristiansen   24   8   7250
Per Erik Løff   21   5   7225
Erling Voje   24   3   7100
Age Spets   32   1   6200
Billy Ngo   36   4   6125
Kai N. Andersen   35   2   6075
Linda Kristin Suhr   36   3   5650
Arild Blålid   25   2   5450
Neil Henshaw   24   4   5325
Efraimsen Oyvind   21   4   5100
Andreas Hagen   34   4   4425
Jørn Eriksrud Bye   36   9   3350