Expekt.com Norwegian Championships ME: Day 2 - At A Glance

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55 players remain now meaning its

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- time folks!

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Rolf Galåsen is the player who finished 56th to precipitate the bubble, his K-8 shove with a shortstack failing to outdraw the A-K of his opponent Steffen Kongelf...

Here is nearly man Rolf, watching events with johnny Lodden, shortly after his exit.

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The torture of the bubble has been lessened slightly with the news that Expekt.com, sponsors of the event, will provide free entry to next year's event to any norwegian who finishes on the bubble. This announcement was met with a massive round of applause from the ever effusive band of norwegians drinking and playing.

Not to be outdone, Simon Trumper just announced that DTD will kindly buy any home-grown bubbler into the 300£ DTD event. His announcment was met with considerably more hushed tones from the British contingent, perhaps as only 4 of the remaining 55 players are from the UK! Nonetheless there was a respectful if muted ripple of applause at DTD's generosity.

The bubble continues...

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Despite it being hand-for-hand currently, I've managed to watch no fewer than three called all-ins play out, but each time the short stack doubled up.  Once it was a very short 7k shove from Joachim Lundgård Thorkildsen, called blind by big blind Robin Reed (blinds are 1,200/2,400)....
Thorkildsen: 
Reed: 
Though Reed had an up'n'down straight draw on the turn, he missed his outs on the river and the game continued.
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Meanwhile Øyvind Larsen doubled up in a much more adamant way after shoving pre for 25,500 with and being called by bb Bjørn Andre Hovden with .  Only quads for the Jacks by the end as the board came .

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Pål Knudsen just raised it up form the cut off, only to find the relatively shortstacked, and one of the few remaining Brits Andrew Shepherd re-raising allin from the BB for 30k more...

"Bubble Simon bubble!!!" said Andrew enthusiastically, "I don't careI get a seat in the £300 event anyway!"

Eventually Pal passed and Andrew showed him .

Here is Pal assessing his options and the eager rail wondering if this will be the bubble.(bonus norkage hidden away in the photo...)



And Andrew Shepherd after adding to his stack and continuing to fly the flag for Britain...

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A big (slightly strange) hand knocks Martin Rasch down to near the felt - an all in situation occurring where he found himself up against on an flop with only a gutshot or runners to help him, holding .  The turn and river were the and though, which mean that his 16k or so might well be heading over the line any minute...

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6 allins so far, six short stacks have survived...

THE BUBBLE continues!

BUT, we have just had an eliminiation!

Jen is out there soaking up the details like an updating sponge and she'll be relating this hand shortly.

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And there you have it................

Mr. Bubble is still super short Joachim Lundgård Thorkildsen, who'd already survived one bubble all in, but this time was called when he shoved with by, er, .  I couldn't see quite how short he'd become (again) so that might have been an autocall....

Anyway the flop: 
Turn:
River:

So Mr. Thorkildsen breaks an unexpectedly long Scandie bubble and wins entry to next year's Norwegian Open, which he celebrated by drinking some Corona and being hit on the back by about 20 guys on the rail.

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Oh wait, I promised Britwatch going into Day Three - so here's the full complement (I think - please set me right if you're in, and not from Norway     )

Ian Frazer



Daniel Platten and Billy Ngo



Chris Bruce



Can any of them fight through the remaining 54 players to the final?  Find out tomorrow from 3pm...

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Also in there battling on for Britain is Andrew Shepherd, short with 27k or so...




Also Mark Docherty is still in, although very short on 13k or so. Not sure if he is British or Irish, but more likely to homegrown than Norwegian, we're cheering him on whatever!



Ok the official final chip counts are in.

These 54 players will return tomorrow at 3pm to play down to the final table. We're going to join the Norwegians for a drink, but we'll see you all back here tomorrow.

Kristoffer Ustad   31   9   285000
Thomas A. Middelthon   23   9   207800
Jim Jakobsen   23   2   205000
Peter Brusdal   12   4   201200
Øystein Halland   32   3   195400
Tage Almark   33   4   190300
Erik Borkvik   32   5   187200
Svein Arnesen   32   4   165000
Pål Knudsen   33   9   155400
Ole Johan Knudsen   32   6   155200
Martin Gudvangen   33   2   148000
Pal Kristiansen   32   8   142900
Bjørnar Koss   33   1   139200
Magnus Skumsnes   23   3   136300
Marcus Pettersson   31   1   131700
Roger Johannesen   22   9   125700
Stig Rune Kveen   23   4   123900
Timm Stokke   22   6   123700
Frank Porturas   12   1   121600
Jan Olav Sjavik   23   6   120600
Ian Frazer   12   6   120300
Kai Danilo Paulsen   31   6   106200
Michael Mccool   33   5   100300
Kjetil Skau   32   7   95900
Bent Skammersrund   31   3   93000
Tage Skare   22   2   90700
Christopher Bruce   22   5   87800
Robin Reed   12   7   78700
Billy Ngo   33   7   72400
Rolf Galåsen   12   2   66800
Stig Thomassen   33   8   66700
Efraimsen Oyvind   31   2   65300
Geir Lian   12   8   62400
Tommy Fineide   22   3   61800
Morten Langbraten   32   9   60700
Håvard Holder   31   4   53000
Barlien Sondre   31   8   50400
Stein Hansen   23   5   49400
Erik Kindlien   23   1   48000
Arne Kristian Falkenhaug   31   5   45900
Steffen Kongelf   12   5   45900
Øyvind Larsen   22   8   42800
Platten Daniel   33   6   39900
Thomas Olavsrud   33   3   39800
Simen Derås Jacobsen   31   7   39700
Thomas Wullum   22   1   31700
Brede Sandkjernan   23   8   29900
Kim-ove Hagerup   23   7   29400
Andrew Shepherd   22   7   27800
Bjørn Andre Hovden   22   4   21600
Martin Rasch   12   3   17200
Mark Docherty   32   1   13200
Stig Moen   12   9   9800
Ørjan Skommo   32   2   5500

For now...