Pokerstars.com EPT Barcelona - Day 2 - Interactive

[Djinn]

This guy, Jens Klaning, just busted Michel Abecassis, who walked from the table, arms crossed and an expression of consternation, having had a very promising start to the day.  Klaning's hand was , and the board at the end xheart .  I am going to take a wild guess that the chips got in pre and that AK may have been the assassin of the Frenchman.  But I don't really know.  He is out though.

[Djinn]

The unstoppable Sebastian Ruthenberg adds another player's whole stack to his already near 200k... and it's Isaac Haxton, I am afraid (sorry this early picture only has his arm in HoKarlMC)



Haxton got it all in preflop with , and it looks like Ruthenberg has so many chips he would feel the loss of a flip like the bite of a gnat as he was ready to take him on with .
Flop: 
Turn:
River:

Hands were shaken.  Chips were stacked into enormous towers.

[JungleCat03]

The double through I promised was "Randall" Flowers!

I missed how the hand played out but joined the table with pocket Kings laid out in front of him on a board of A-A-9-2-5 and having his stack counted out so his opponent could pay him off (I'm surmising, using my all-powerful deductive skills that his opponent didn't have an ace)

It looked as though he had doubled through to roughly 60k, which sets him up nicely for another deep EPT run to mirror his efforts in San Remo, although the young gun will be looking to go better than his 10th place finish this time.

Mark has had a great year in live tournaments so far. Apart from San Remo, he only has two other lines on his Hendon Mob Database profile this year, but both are victories so he is clearly a man in form.

I caught his eye as he was stacking his chips and he gave me a big grin to signal how happy he was at his double up.

[JungleCat03]

Can I have updates on Stephen Chidwick aka Stevie444 Online step6 legend

thanks Chris

Yes, last level he was in great shape with 125,000 chips to his name.

We'll keep an eye out for the online prodigy as we skirt around.

Rumour has it he has won over 100 WSOP packages via the steps system...Is this correct Chris?

If so, that is an amazing achievement, over $1,000,000 worth of prizes.

What do you think of that Rolf???



Rolf - "Shoooo Shick!"

[Djinn]

Chipped Up:

Chad Brown -- 140k



Jonas Klausen -- 190k+



Ramzi Jelassi -- 120k



Pasquale Braco -- 120k  Also proud carrier of Luis Vuitton manbag (check it out, Julian, the trend is international!)

[Moorman1]

Can I have updates on Stephen Chidwick aka Stevie444 Online step6 legend

thanks Chris

Yes, last level he was in great shape with 125,000 chips to his name.

We'll keep an eye out for the online prodigy as we skirt around.

Rumour has it he has won over 100 WSOP packages via the steps system...Is this correct Chris?
If so, that is an amazing achievement, over $1,000,000 worth of prizes.

What do you think of that Rolf???



Rolf - "Shoooo Shick!"

In your eye Rolf..... Yeh over 100 seats mbfn Stevie.....

125k go go go imo

[Moorman1]

oh and tell him from me that he should sit back on those chips and nit it up like I do

[Gobbomom]

weeeeeeeeeee go Randal go.

My kid thinks he's the best player ever,  here's hoping he can go deep today.

[JungleCat03]

One of the players left in the tournament in the tournament is the russian Semen Apokorin.

It would be very easy to make jokes about Semen's first name, but we have decided against it as we feel it would leave a bad taste in the mouth...


Incidentally, we were told that one of the Spanish reporters has been accidentally mis-typing Glen Chorney's name as Glen Horney throughout the update which caused much amusement in the media room when he eventually discovered his mistake, especially as he was typing headlines like "Glen Horney Is Bigger Than Average" and "Horney Pulls It Off Again" after a successful bluff. Lolz.


Ok, the players are now on a one hour dinner break to refresh and re-charge. Hopefully we'll be able to put some chip counts up when the players come back but for now, it's time for the players and us to eat.

*************************ONE HOUR DINNER BREAK. BACK SOON**********************

[Djinn]

As the dinner break commences, Omar Shaked busts out having gotten so short that neighbour Tobias Bengtsson said, "I didn't want to look as I knew he was going to push and I didn't want to have to see 7-2 and call..." That's never a good situation, and he was heading out of the tourney area - but I have no idea if there was previously a big damaging hand or if today had been a slow dwindle. 


Absolutely not a clue how around 40k got into a pot where beat on a board of ... but Joseph Pelton was the beneficiary and Luca Giovannone the loser. 


BACK IN AN HOUR, ICE CREAM BREAK

[George2Loose]

Can it be noted that I was the first to start the Pac Man t shirt wearing craze.

Surely Steve will follow me and Kevin in final tabling (hoping he's still in and I don't bok him)

[Ironside]

jen do me a favour and tell the top PLO players that might visit london in a couple of weeks not to bother as its going to be snowing

got to try weeken the field somehow

[Djinn]

Having tried to locate full counts after the first Post Dinner Watch and failed, going to have to settle for these Notable Counts, as Counted by Pokerstars.com.  The rest of the UK players I will find in just a moment.

Jonas Klausen   Qualifier   Sweden   220000
Sebastian Ruthenberg   Sponsored   Germany   205000
Mazhar Nawab   Qualifier   Ireland   158000
Martin Nielsen   Denmark   140000
Jens Klaning   Denmark   138000
Chad Brown   Team Pro   USA   130000
Hafiz Khan   Qualifier   USA   130000
David Kruger   USA   130000
Mikael Lundell   Sweden   123000
Ramzi Jelassi   Sweden   120000
Asti Ruscalla   Italy   115000
Kasey Castle   USA   110000
Jason Mercier   PS Player   USA   108000
Marko Vainio   Finland   100000
Stevie Chidwick   Qualifier   UK   95000
Pedro Pocas   Qualifier   Portugal   94000
Steve Jelinek   Qualifier   UK   74000
Michael Keiner   Germany   73000
Voitto Rintala   Finland   70000
Michael Greco   UK   61000
Robert Mizrachi   USA   55000
Thierry Van Den Berg   Qualifier   Holland   55000
Jonas Molander   Sweden   36000
Glen Chorny   Canada   15000

   
   
   

[Djinn]

oh and tell him from me that he should sit back on those chips and nit it up like I do

Here's your man, Moorman.

From humble stack beginnings, to around 55k right now, including lots of I've-been-at-the-antes black 100 chips.

[Djinn]

Incidentally, two minutes after taking that picture, I walked by the table again and the seat formerly occupied by Schnettler was vacant, leading me to assume at best moved and at worst Busto.