Expekt.com Norwegian Championships ME: Day 3 - Interactive

[JungleCat03]

Tim Stokke has just eliminated 2 players on the feature table. A 3 way allin preflop,  his A-K was looking good versus the A-Q and (not sure of the other hand but may have been another A-Q) and a K on the flop secured the pot, which gave him a juicy increase to his stack and meant he consigned 2 players to the rail...

Stokke proffers his hand to one of his victims as he sends him crashing out...



His other victim leaves the table as the cull of the white shirted scandies continues...



In contrast to many of the companies in the FTSE index, this Stokke's rising...

[JungleCat03]

This player, Erik Borkvik, is sharing the felt with the quiet (for once!) but still in, Ian Frazer.

I think he bears a passing resemblance to a younger, slightly hairier version of Dave Colclough, whilst Jen maintains he is more of a Gareth from the office look-a-like.

Here he is in full bulgey eye mode. Any opinions?

[Djinn]

The two-out dramas continue, this time in the shape of Oyvind Ephraimsen's , all in preflop against the of Magnus Skumsnes...  I guess that kind of gives the story away, but just to round it out, the board brought a first off, followed by some irrelevant cards which made a full house, knocking Magnus down to the felt.

Oyvind Ephraimsen, with the floor abuzz counting out and doubling his stack:



Glumness For Skumsnes:

[WarBwastard]

This player, Erik Borkvik, is sharing the felt with the quiet (for once!) but still in, Ian Frazer.

I think he bears a passing resemblance to a younger, slightly hairier version of Dave Colclough, whilst Jen maintains he is more of a Gareth from the office look-a-like.

Here he is in full bulgey eye mode. Any opinions?

Peep peep

[The_nun]

This player, Erik Borkvik, is sharing the felt with the quiet (for once!) but still in, Ian Frazer.

I think he bears a passing resemblance to a younger, slightly hairier version of Dave Colclough, whilst Jen maintains he is more of a Gareth from the office look-a-like.

Here he is in full bulgey eye mode. Any opinions?

Peep peep

OMG the boy from space, this flung me back to junior school, the kids who struggled on their English got to watch this and we were all jealous. I no longer tried hard in that class just so I may have got the chance to watch it too. I just got cained instead.   Pervert teacher I reackon now.

[JungleCat03]

Billy Ngo is Billy Ngone!

Shortstacked with less than 60k, he made his move with a fine K-Q, only to run into Martin Gudvangen's pocket ladies.

He managed to spike a two outer earlier but despite having 50% more outs this time, he couldn't hit the K he desired, despite picking up an open ended straight draw on the turn so the British contingent is depleted once more as the happy and likeable character departs the playing arena.

Here is Billy, stilll smiling but a little resigned to his fate as he realised he is in trouble...



And Marting Gudvangen, in full serious business mode

[Djinn]

SO we're down to just two UK players in a field of aggressive Scandinavians.  They're both keeping their heads above water, however:

Daniel Platten, Featured and commentated on - 150,000



Ian Frazer, starting to wander around between hands, telling Dave Smith that he's "The last English player standing, cause Dan's sitting down."  Apparently he just lost about a 150k pot to his neighbour in a small blind vs. big blind situation - he'd flopped two pair, "I had him all the way, and he caught his flush on the river."  Still on around 140k.

[Djinn]

AJ vs. AK sees off Simen Derås Jacobsen on the last hand before the current ***************1hr DINNER BREAK***************

Anyone feel like taking a guess at some final tablists?  I will go for Thomas Middelthon, Robin Reed and Ian Frazer...

[JungleCat03]

Martin continues to run Gud(vangen)

After dismissing Billy Ngo from the comp, the table was broken and he announced himself in style to the new table.

Calling a shortstack's move allin with , he found himself ahead of Simen Derås Jacobsen's ..

A flop of gave assistance to both players, moving Simen slightly ahead with bottom pair but vulnerable to Martin's OESD...

Simen, with his tournament life on the line, was gripped by developments...



Needing to dodge an A K or 8, Simen couldn't even survive the turn though as a K arrived to improve his hand to two pair but give Martin a virtual lock with the nut straight.

When the river blanked, so did Simen's chances of winning the tournament. Good game.

Here is the man of the moment, Martin Gudvangen, shortly after claiming yet another scalp.

[Djinn]

Chip Counts at the Dinner Break:

Barlien Sondre   14   6   749300
Svein Arnesen   14   4   634000
Tage Almark   11   3   392700
Thomas A. Middelthon   14   1   352700
Erik Borkvik   14   5   285500
Kjetil Skau   14   7   271600
Stig Rune Kveen   12   5   232600
Martin Gudvangen   11   6   213300
Geir Lian   12   8   206100
Stein Hansen   12   9   192600
Frank Porturas   11   8   188000
Efraimsen Oyvind   11   2   152100
Bjørnar Koss   12   1   150400
Robin Reed   12   7   147700
Ian Frazer   14   8   139700
Platten Daniel   12   6   139600
Jim Jakobsen   14   9   137000
Arne Kristian Falkenhaug   11   5   131900
Marcus Pettersson   11   1   131300
Peter Brusdal   12   4   84800
Kristoffer Ustad   11   9   80000
Roger Johannesen   11   4   71700
Timm Stokke   12   3   47300
Bjørn Andre Hovden   14   2   43900

[JungleCat03]

Also going great guns is Gareth from the office and Dave Colclough's love child, Erik Borkvik.

In a preflop raised pot he and table partner, Bjørn Andre Hovden, fired their chips into the middle for what was a 350k pot.

MONSTER POT ALERT!!

The board of was a great one for Bjorn holding for the nut set, but even greater for Erik in a huge cooler scenario, as he held . Bjorn needed to pair the board to knock down Erik's flush and both players watched the flop anxiously...



As the turn and river came however, there was no escape for Bjorn, who lost the massive pot, which has seen Erik catapulted to the higher echelons of the leaderboard...

Here is the unfortunate Bjorn...

[bovie]

i like most ov us brits know ian frazer well but he has impressed me more in this comp than any other i have either played or seen him play in.........as i think he has a game plan that he dont normally play....i.e take a back step,this must be very hard plan to execute,when they want to shuv it all in first chance they get............good on ya ian

[Djinn]

Back on track playing after the buffet (which we somehow managed to leave raiding so late it was gone by the time we got in there   ) we were expecting a slightly slower rate of runner reduction, and there's definitely a good exciting atmosphere around the final three tables, which is greatly aided by the £300 event kicking off and filling the room with chip-riffling, beer-drinking noises.  Expect updates aplenty on Julian, Maria et al. over on the other update thread gearing up about now.

Over on one table, Martin Gudvangen raises preflop to 21k in early position, getting re-raised calmly to 60k by Frank Porturas.  Over to Oyvind Efraimsen on the button who places a chip carefully on his cards.  I am just about to think, "Pass quicker," to myself when he suddenly moves all in!  Big blind Almark Tage wishes out loud, "Aces!" but clearly doesn't have those as he passes as does Gudvangen, briskly.

Back to Porturas, who now looks distinctly unhappy, sort of like a man who's just put almost half their stack in to resteal but found someone else with a hand behind... It's 137,700 exactly in total, so just under 80k to call.  A couple of railers seem to expect him to call for his tournament life speedily, but he doesn't.  He thinks and thinks and eventually passes, leaving himself short and presumably ruing his timing.

[Rocket]

Just wanted you to know, great updates as always.... Even though it has to be a bit challenging with all those unknown scandies, lol

over 500 pokerhappy Norwegians gathered together with access to booze must be an uhm... interesting sight...!

[londonpokergirl]

Just wanted you to know, great updates as always.... Even though it has to be a bit challenging with all those unknown scandies, lol

over 500 pokerhappy Norwegians gathered together with access to booze must be an uhm... interesting sight...!

its great fun there One of the cash games i got involved with had a norwegian guy £6000 to blow as apparently couldn't bring it back to norway and 12 quadruple vodkas lined up .... and all in every hand ...  was mad