Expekt.com Norwegian Championships ME: Day 3 - Interactive

[Djinn]

One of the remaining UK contingent remaining in, Billy Ngo, jsut found himself allin.

He was holding 5-5 allin preflop, having decided it was time to gamble but found himself in that unfortunate position of his opponent holding a larger pair leaving him dominated and very likely to be out in moments.

A timely 5 spiked on the turn though, leaving Billy fist-pumping and jubilant as the river blanked to double him through.

Normally in these situations, you sort of want the best hand to hold up, but when you see the joy pouring out of Billy and the way his face lit up as the five hit, you can't help but root for the guy.

Here's Billy enjoying his moment with a huge grin and a halo!

FYP

[JungleCat03]

And in one of those bizarre quirks of fate that life can throw up from time to time, the very next hand, Billy's table partner, Stig Thomassen  found himself allin with 5-5, and again he was up against the knaves of Bjornar Koss. And AGAIN the fives made a set to upset the apple cart...


Spooky coincidence?

Statistical anomaly?

Badly shuffled deck?

You decide!!! ( well you don't have to if you don't want)

[JungleCat03]

Some of the Brits are down but Billy, Ian, Chris and Daniel are fighting to keep those viking marauders at bay!!!

Click to see full-size image.

Keep it up lads!!!

[Djinn]

Docherty Down!

Having held on tenaciously while players with more chips have fallen to the left and right, our shortstacked UK player Mark Docherty has finally bitten the dust.  He shoved pre with , and was called by .  Not one but two Queens later, and he exits in the £1k prize bracket...

**********************20 min break ************************

[JungleCat03]

And in contrast one of the Brits whose star is rising is Daniel Platten, his flush draw with hitting to send (i beleive) Kim-ove Hagerup crashing to the rail.

Here is Daniel, not letting one rip in celebration as it may appear but adjusting his seat after that near double up...



And Kim-Ove Hagerup who will be getting lagered-up pretty soon I imagine.

[JungleCat03]

With the players on a short hiatus whilst the dealers colour up the chips, I have the perfect excuse to post a couple of pictures of the pretty lady dealing the TV table...

[JungleCat03]

A quick recap of players eliminated since the last full and frank account. Ranked amongst their number is spherical wonder Kai Danilo Paulsen, final tablist from the Irish Open, who is off to challenge Matt Tyler to a "who has the roundest head" contest.



Good game Kai.

37   Kim-ove Hagerup
38   Mark Docherty
39   Tommy Fineide
40   Thomas Olavsrud
41   Kai Danilo Paulsen
42   Brede Sandkjernan
43   Øyvind Larsen
44   Pal Kristiansen

[JungleCat03]

Chip counts from the end of the last level, courtesy of those fine people at DTD

Barlien Sondre   11   8   411200
Thomas A. Middelthon   23   9   373700
Bjørnar Koss   15   1   223900
Svein Arnesen   14   4   214800
Pål Knudsen   15   9   203300
Robin Reed   12   7   200000
Erik Borkvik   14   5   188600
Kjetil Skau   14   7   176900
Tage Almark   15   4   169200
Ole Johan Knudsen   14   6   162700
Marcus Pettersson   11   1   156500
Stig Rune Kveen   23   4   156400
Ian Frazer   14   8   154500
Frank Porturas   12   1   141600
Platten Daniel   23   6   122600
Magnus Skumsnes   23   3   121500
Stig Thomassen   15   8   107300
Geir Lian   12   8   107200
Billy Ngo   15   7   103800
Øystein Halland   14   3   101000
Peter Brusdal   12   4   97100
Bjørn Andre Hovden   15   6   92200
Stein Hansen   23   5   89900
Christopher Bruce   23   8   82800
Jim Jakobsen   23   2   82200
Efraimsen Oyvind   11   2   79500
Tage Skare   14   2   78900
Simen Derås Jacobsen   11   7   78400
Roger Johannesen   11   4   78000
Arne Kristian Falkenhaug   11   5   74100
Rolf Galåsen   12   2   73700
Martin Gudvangen   15   2   60900
Kristoffer Ustad   11   9   59000
Timm Stokke   12   3   58500
Steffen Kongelf   12   5   51600
Bent Skammersrund   11   3   48300

[Tonji]

With the players on a short hiatus whilst the dealers colour up the chips, I have the perfect excuse to post a couple of pictures of the pretty lady dealing the TV table...

Some interesting!!! conversations can be heard on the live feed during the breaks  they easily forget the microphones are switched on   

[Djinn]

The Magic Of Fives Continues...

Tage Skare gets it all in preflop with against Thomas Middelthon's .

First card out:  .  No improvement.  Farewell Mr Skare in 35th spot.

[JungleCat03]

It is 2.5k / 5k / 500 at the moment, 15 minutes into level 17.

35 players remain and the average stack is 146,857.


BAD NEWS FOR BRITS

Chris Bruce came over earlier and was concerned he may need to move quickly with his 80k stack. Well move it he did with , only to find As in the hands of Øystein Halland.

A flop of was resounding, meaning Chris' tournament life had ebbed away like the pieces of skull from the kid's tv programme Knightmare. (great series)


 
Here's Chris in his final moments, departing the table £1,250 richer than he was moments ago.



And his executioner, Øystein Halland, boasting and gurning to the rail simultaneously...

[Djinn]

Bjørn Andre Hovden knocks out Stig Thomassen, showing an uncharacteristic expressiveness in standing up and shouting, "HUNH!" or something, just the once, before regaining composure and stacking his new chips.  It doesn't happen very often, but sometimes the excitement/disappoinment/gloaty winning feeling just can't be kept inside, it seems, and you get the occasional brief, but very loud shouting from one of the remaining four tables, which is always a sign of a big movement in chips of some sort.

[bovie]

can you please tell me if any ov the regular high stake players are there for the cash...............if so who please  thank you

[Djinn]

        BORING HATWATCH

With the demise of the Snakeskin Cowboy, we lost pretty much the last Colour from this tournament - lucky the play here is so unrelenting and usually interesting that there's enough to keep us keen... But I just noticed that there is one hat-wearer per table at the moment, and decided to introduce these players to blonde via the medium of mocking their tediously subdued headgear.  I would say these are in order, from least to most boring, but there really are no winners here.

Bjornar Koss



Jim Jakobsen



Stein Hansen



Arne Kristian Fulkonhaug

[Djinn]

Thomas Middelthon takes another scalp - this time that of unfortunate Ole Johan Knudsen who got his whole stack in pre with , against Middelthon's , but a spiked Ten took us under thirty players.... they're now in the £1,250 prize bracket, btw.