Expekt.com Norwegian Championships ME: Day 3 - At A Glance

[JungleCat03]

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...!

Genuinely one of, if not THE nicest tournament environments I've everr experienced. Loud and boisterous at times, the Norwegians have been polite and courteous always and you very rarely see any of them kicking off after a bad beat (see below) / angle shooting / any of the lame poker antics you often see elsewhere.

I can't praise them highly enough and hope this event becomes a regular fixture.

[Djinn]

Roger Johannesen is OUT in 23rd place (we're now in the £1,500) prize bracket...

Oyvind Efraimsen raised on the button (it's really been his level or so, actually) and found short stacked Johannesen moving in on the big blind for 34,900 more.  He didn't think for very long before giving him a spin with his - which was ahead of Johannesen's , but with the potential split a bit of a relief for the all-in player...

More of a relief must have been the flop: 
Turn: 
River:     (Oooh, say the table, but in a resigned, "It was all in pre after all," sensible way).

Pictured - Efraimsen and neighbour Almark Tage laughing at the cruel vagaries of lady luck.  Probably.

[JungleCat03]

SICK HAND IMMINENT!

When Peter Brusdal shvoed allin over the top of a Tim Stokke raise and was called, he was pleased to find himself well in front with versus the of Tim.

A flop of all but sealed the deal, his set of jacks leaving Tim with only four outs to hit a straight to take it down.

The turn blanked in the form of the BUT given the title of the post, you will probably have already guessed the river was a !!

Very sick, but not moaning from Peter, just a glum look at the table and silent contemplation over his misfortune. Tim had him covered so that was his tournament over...

Here is Peter after this beat, speechless.



Here is the watching rail, shock registering across most of their faces as the queen spikes, the exception being the character on the far left who thinks this is HILARIOUS!!!



Tim Stokke posing happily for the cameras as he takes down that big pot (one of the rail is so shocked he's written his feelings on the hand across his shirt)

[Djinn]

A very large pot developed with four interested parties preflop, prepared to expend at least the original raiser's 22k... but a couple of players had other ideas about cheap flops, Arne Falkenhaug moving in on the small blind for 122k or so.  Over to Porturas who may have been the original raiser, who made the call, while the other two guys backed off.
Falkenhaug: 
Porturas:

The board came out (surely one of the two folders' eyebrows twitched ever so slightly)... and Arne said "YO!" and then went back to being silent, having won a pot of around 300k.

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Recent finishing positions... and payouts still to be paid out tonight - until the Final Nine are reached...

21   Kristoffer Ustad
22   Bjørnar Koss
23   Roger Johannesen
24   Peter Brusdal
25   Øystein Halland
26   Simen Derås Jacobsen
27   Billy Ngo
28   Magnus Skumsnes
29   Bent Skammersrund
30   Ole Johan Knudsen

10th    £3,031
11th    £3,031
12th    £3,031
13th    £3,031
14th    £2,165
15th    £2,165
16th    £2,165
17th    £2,165
18th    £2,165
19th to 27th    £1,500

[JungleCat03]

Kristoffer Ustad was just elminated, making a move with A-8, he ran into the A-Q of Geir Lian ( i think!)

A 4-9-K-T-Q board sufficed for Geir and left Kristoffer banished to the rail but not before he bumped into DTD's version of cyclops...



A happy Geir can barely stop his hand shaking after that pot!

[Djinn]

Supersick! 

That is the wonderfully hissy commentary given to this hand:  Marcus Pettersson moved in for his last 36,900, flat called by button Tage Almark.  The crowds drifted over, however, when big blind Martin Gudvangen re-raised all in - for 172,200.  This turned out to be more than Almark was willing to call, and it was 'on their backs' time:

Pettersson: 
Gudvangen: 

Flop:    No comment from rail
Turn:    No comment from rail
River:    One guy mutters "Supersick" and then they drift off.

[JungleCat03]

Frank Porturas is the latest scandie to be sent crashing out of the tournament.

We are now hand for hand with 19 players remaining at 5k 10k (apologies for the clock, it is wrong at this time...)

£1,500 for 19th, here are the rest of the payouts for the remaining players, once this mini payout bubble is breached.

1st    £70,362
2nd    £39,836
3rd    £24,897
4th    £17,320
5th    £14,072
6th    £9,742
7th    £7,577
8th    £5,412
9th    £4,330
10th    £3,031
11th    £3,031
12th    £3,031
13th    £3,031
14th    £2,165
15th    £2,165
16th    £2,165
17th    £2,165
18th    £2,165

[Djinn]

Nothing really to report, as far as hands go - the shorter stacks just keep making stands now and then, and the bigger stacks picking up the now hefty 5k/10k/1k blinds and antes.  Robin Reed has been particularly active, just now moving all in preflop two hands in a row (this takes quite a while when it's hand for hand, as it is).  The first time it was uncontested (apart from a brief dwell from Frazer with his 'pair') but the second time he nearly got a call from Stein Hansen... but no.

The only flop I've seen in the last half hour was, actually, , at which point Efraimsen moved in after his opponent bet out 50k to take the pot.


Stein Hansen asks neighbour Ian Frazer if he and one other guy are the only UK players left, gesturing towards these two (Stig Rune Kveen and Dan Platten).  Ian Frazer thought he was pointing at Kveen, and says, "He's not English - are you crazy?  Look at his hair."      "I'm English," helped out Platten.

[Djinn]

Daniel Platten moved in preflop with ,  but was looked up by the of Stein Hansen. 
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:  Another diamond making an overkill style win for the Brit and doubling him over 220k.

[JungleCat03]

A peaceful, tranquil period just elapsed in which little of note happened.

The serene waters of the tournament were, however, broken in dramatic fashion as there was not jsut one but TWO allins!

First off we had Taga Almark and Martin Gudvangen tangling preflop, the former holding , the latter ...

Taga watched the board like a hawk to see if Martin would spike the ace he needed but a board of 8-8-3-3-2 transpired, no ace and thus no more Martin.

Tage is happy with his Kings holding - OBV!



Martin, on the left, tries to sneak in and sit with another guy's stack, but I noticed...NO NO NO! Give it up and go and get your £2k Martin.

[JungleCat03]

Simultaneous to this hand, 2 players on the adjacent table move their chips in on a flop.

The players in question were Stig Rune Kveen and Robin Reed, the former showing and the latter .

Stig was overjoyed to find his opponent was drawing so thin against his two reed aces on an all black board. a and turn and river didn't provide any shocks and Reed is our next elimination, leaving 17 players left to battle on...

[JungleCat03]

Daniel Platten moved in preflop with ,  but was looked up by the of Stein Hansen. 
Flop: 
Turn: 
River:  Another diamond making an overkill style win for the Brit and doubling him over 220k.

Stein was left short after this hand and almost as if the two brits were working as a tag team he was polished off by Ian Frazer a few hands later, whose juicy Kings held to knock out Stein, who had moved in desperate fashion with .

Both Daniel and Ian are doing Britain proud as the field is whittled down yet further and we approach the dramatic finale to this contest.

16 players remain...

[JungleCat03]

We are in the midst of a short break, so this seems an opportune moment to list the remaining 16 players and their chips, all hoping to make it to the final 9...

Barlien Sondre   11   8   661000
Efraimsen Oyvind   11   2   446500
Tage Almark   11   3   433500
Geir Lian   12   8   401500
Marcus Pettersson   12   7   358000
Erik Borkvik   11   7   353500
Svein Arnesen   11   4   322000
Stig Rune Kveen   12   5   313000
Thomas A. Middelthon   12   2   297000
Kjetil Skau   12   4   282000
Arne Kristian Falkenhaug   11   5   269500
Ian Frazer   12   1   265000
Jim Jakobsen   11   6   246000
Platten Daniel   12   6   197000
Timm Stokke   12   3   145000
Bjørn Andre Hovden   11   9   91000

[Djinn]

For the chip lead, this one... On a flop of Marcus Pettersson bet out, Geir Lian raised, and Pettersson moved in.  A little think, and a call - with ...trailing behind Pettersson (whom I just found out is a sneaky Swede) with for top two.
Turn:    making the whole thing drawtastic...
River:  - a blank and a giant pot for Pettersson, a huge hit for Lian - pictured looking stern.  Fair enough.

[Djinn]

Unsurprisingly, Geir Lian moves in pretty sharpish for his last 34k, and finds Ian Frazer re-raising.  The blinds obligingly depart, and Frazer shows , against Lian's .  A K-Q-6 flop added a bit of excitement, but the turn and river bricked sending Geir Lian to the rail in 15th place, winning  £2,165.

Here's Frazer ready to Take On All of Norway: