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« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2008, 05:26:05 PM »

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
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« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2008, 05:31:34 PM »

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
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« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2008, 05:44:32 PM »

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.

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« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2008, 05:49:43 PM »

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...

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« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2008, 06:04:03 PM »

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.

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« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2008, 06:21:44 PM »

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. 
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« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2008, 06:44:44 PM »

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...
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« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2008, 07:01:05 PM »

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:

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« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2008, 07:12:28 PM »

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

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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2008, 07:17:22 PM »

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.

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« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2008, 07:28:12 PM »

AJ vs. AK sees off Simen Derås Jacobsen on the last hand before the current ***************1hr DINNER BREAK***************
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« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2008, 07:47:00 PM »

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.

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« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2008, 07:50:17 PM »

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
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« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2008, 07:53:38 PM »


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...

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« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2008, 08:41:54 PM »

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 Sad  ) 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.
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