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« Reply #15 on: September 10, 2008, 08:07:55 PM »

Osman Mustanoglu busts a short stack... with three limpers he raised on the button to 1,100.  Early limper Patrick Bueno called, as did late limper Matey. 
Flop:   Check to Mustanoglu, who throws in 2,500.  Bueno thinks for a while and passes, but limper Matey looks down at his remaining 3,025 as if it had only just occurred to him that this wasn't very much, and tossed the chips in the middle.  He stood up as Mustanoglu made the swiftest of calls with , against Matey's Surprise Hand which was .
Turn:
River:



And another one down...leaving 232 still playing/eating dinner depending on what half of the room they've found themselves drawn in.
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« Reply #16 on: September 10, 2008, 08:18:23 PM »

Can anyone identify black-sunglasses matey?  I was trying to get a no-flash low-distraction Action Shot of him check-raising the gent in the cream cardigan with his back to us.  It just about worked - he'd called a third player's preflop raise to 600 from early position, only to find the other guy re-raising preflop to 1,800.  Black Sunglasses thought for a while before calling and seeing a flop heads up of three diamonds .  Check to the re-raiser, then quick raise from 2,600 to 6,050.  Although he greatly outchipped Black Sunglasses, he declined to take this hand any further.

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« Reply #17 on: September 10, 2008, 09:48:52 PM »

Table Ryan/ Raymer looks an interesting one and Raymer just played out an interesting pot.

Raising it up to 750 on 150 300 (apologies for clock discrepancies...now corrected), Raymer found a caller in middle position before a shortish stack pushed his stack into the middle for 4k more. The fossilman kept his stone on his cards, looked intently at his opponent through his amusing glasses and thought about it for a while before making the call.

The middle position limper passed...

Cards on their backs, Raymer showed an interesting hand of , though he found himself in better shape than he might have hoped versus his opponent as he flipped over pocket eights...

A flop of Two Clubs transpired though which meant Raymer missed and a 12k pot winged its way to his fist-pumping opponent. Raymer justified his call saying "I put you on a range, was getting close to 2-1 and I thought middle pockets made up a lot of your range."

Fair enough - and he was proved right despite losing the pot...

Annette Obrestad is out though.

She had seen her stack cleft in two running into a set previously before she made a move to accumulate chips semi-bluffing all-in with a gutshot straight flush draw and plenty of outs but missing to send her to the rail and end any notion of adding to her impressive list of tournament results.

She was gracious in defeat though as she left the tournament though and we know the talented young lady will be back soon, hungry for success.
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« Reply #18 on: September 10, 2008, 10:08:40 PM »

Johannes Strassman just eliminated Mike McDonald (sorry for not finding him earlier, would have sworn blind on his not playing today, but we have no lists and will be sketchy on anyone who isn't a Pokerstars Pro until Day Two)...

There were the in front of Strassman, and Timex was standing up as his remaining chips were being shifted over, saying, "Usually I win those."  Using our Poker Projection abilities, we would like to suggest that it was a two-overcard race which sent the award-winning player to the rail.

Here, on the Special Table, on the far right is Strassman, next to EPT champ Christian Grundtvig and then there's the dude in white whom I'm sure I recognise but can't quite place.

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« Reply #19 on: September 10, 2008, 10:23:17 PM »

Honey man chip count please!!

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Albert has had a very up and down day!

Early on, he was chip leader and managed to work his stack up to a rosy 30k which was near the chip lead before being reduced to a tiny 2,000 chips.

Somehow though he has waved his sticky little wand of honey over this mini stack and transformed it into a mightily impressive 40,000! Here he is with his bulky collection of chips.



Julian Thew arrived a few moments ago and went through his usual routine of signing autographs, accepting thanks for awards he hadn't even realised he won (he won the Pokerstars award for "Media Player Of The Year" last night, which was accepted on his behalf) and generally chatting to his fans and friends.

He heard about the Albert Sapiano story and was amazed. "30,000 to 2,000 to 40,000!"

"He's the new yo-yo!" I told him and maybe I thought I noticed just the smallest trace of fear in Julian's eyes at this possible  threat to his position as the all powerful yo-yo master.

Then I realised he was actually just registering amazement at how quickly Jen was eating steak. Apparently they had to kill three seperate cows before her thirst for blood was quenched.

Mild mannered poker writer and player by day, carnivorous T Rex by dinner.

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« Reply #20 on: September 10, 2008, 10:29:29 PM »

Here, on the Special Table, on the far right is Strassman, next to EPT champ Christian Grundtvig and then there's the dude in white whom I'm sure I recognise but can't quite place.



Jason Mercier, winner of EPT San Remo, who I still insist looks like Jake Gyllenhall of Donnie Darko fame.

Also sharing the felt at this table is Erica Schoenburg, making it the pick of the tables in terms of poker fame.

Interestingly, this hand would have felt like some revenge for Strassmann, who was eliminated on the final table of the EPT Dortmund by Mike Mcdonald after being smacked about by the young Canadian for much of the day.

I thought I did detect a little bit of a smug smile from Johannes as he raked in the pot.

Some pots are sweeter to win than others.
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« Reply #21 on: September 10, 2008, 10:49:14 PM »

I'm sad to say I've scoured the casino and can't see Mini Me in the tournament anymore Sad

I asked one of the press how he was doing and was told "he's a bit short" which was a bit harsh I felt. Anyway it appears he's gone, but if he's still in, possibly obscured by a stack of towering three chips or so, I apologise for mis-reporting his exit and hope he can find it in his heart to forgive me.

I'm sure he'll be ok about it.

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« Reply #22 on: September 10, 2008, 10:52:10 PM »

LEADERWATCH:

Here are a few stacks towering over their respective tables, or reaching for the dizzy heights of Chip Leader Himself...

Ramzi Jelassi -- 34,000  A consistent performer who's been left just in the shadow of the limelight a number of times - more than once after two whole days' play and some busted Aces in a crucial pot.  Running better, it appears, and planning the rest of his touring year with the help of an EPT leaflet. 



Michael Keiner -- 63,000  Confident, early chatter who's taking it a bit more seriously, it appears, now he's in contention for going through to Day Two with a huge stack.  An early ridiculous hand saw multiple shoves in front of him with gradually increasing pocket pairs, with his beating them all and winning a monster chip-boosting pot.



Then there's this guy - Mr. Pink, until someone tells me who he is.  Already sitting on a tidy stack, the gent in red sitting on his right got his whole stack in preflop with vs. Mr. Pink's .
Flop: club club  At which point he, contrary to tradition, was the one who leapt out of his chair with a strangled shout of joy, stacking his resigned-looking neighbour and giving him a field-leading 80,000 stack.



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« Reply #23 on: September 10, 2008, 11:00:18 PM »

Other Counts...

Erica Schoenberg -- 14,625
Christian Grundtvig -- 19,700
Johannes Strassman -- 15,500
George Danzer -- 20,600
Glen Chorny -- 12,000
Chad Brown -- 25,500
Osman Mustanoglu -- 22,300
Pascal Perrault -- 16,00 (pictured top)
Sverre Sundbo -- 9,800
Danny Ryan -- 10,500
Andreas Hagen -- 4,575
Alexander Kravchenko -- 5,000
Albert Sapiano -- 45,000
Mats Iremark -- 17,000
Mickey Wernick -- 6,000 (pictured bottom)



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« Reply #24 on: September 10, 2008, 11:56:54 PM »

This is the last level of the night, and the brakes have come off, players starting to bust left and right.  The same stacks mentioned earlier are still dominant, but a few more have been added to their number, while short stacks get it in the middle with their Worst Case Scenario being, "Oh, I'm in Barcelona in the summer, feet from the beach."

One such exiter, who wasn't too happy at the time about it, was Sverre Sundbo, who became entangled in a very big pot on his table.  It got threeway to a flop:
  Danny Ryan in the big blind checked, 2,500 came from Matey (there was, before all this, c. 4,500 in the pot).  Sverre, if not all in preflop (missed that bit) was all in now, so the consideration of the flop was back on Ryan.  Although fairly short stacked himself (11k) he made the call.
Turn:  three clubs  Both players with chips left check.
River:   And again.  "Two pair," announces Matey, flipping , while Sverre tries to muck his hand and leave but isn't allowed to do so by the dealer (from my vantage point I only saw a Nine).  Rules is rules.  Danny gets to just chuck his cards away though.

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« Reply #25 on: September 11, 2008, 12:06:49 AM »

Right, the end is nigh and we will be running for a taxi (it's crazy here at night) so chip counts will be provided tomorrow before Day 1B starts.  That's when we get them, that's when you get them. 
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