Pokerstars.com Barcelona EPT - Day 3 - Interactive

[JungleCat03]

Welcome back for Day Three of EPT Barcelona from myself and Jen here in Barcelona.

We witnessed a firecracker of a day yesterday. Sebastian Ruthenberg, the young German who picked up a stud hi lo bracelet at this summer's WSOP, began the day chip leader and maintained a healthy stack all the way through to the latter stages of the day.

Can he pick up his second big tournament in just a few months?

Also going well is Belgium Winamax player Davidi Kitai. Like Sebastian, he also won a bracelet at the World Series and is clearly another man in form who the field will be hard pressed to stop.

English hopes seem to lie with Stephen Chidwick, who is well in contention, especially after he de-railed Maz Nawab's tournament in dramatic fashion late on in the day yesterday.

Other young guns in the mix include Dane Jonas Klausen, who has looked in good shape throughout and the confident Swede Ramzi Jelassi, who has had some dire fortune in EPTs previously but will have gone to bed with the mantra "ONE TIME" ringing in his ears.

Today should prove to be incredibly exciting and we await the start like eager little beavers!

[Robert HM]

 

[JungleCat03]

Here is the list of remaining players in order of chip count.

One player I didn't mention in the intro is Jason Mercier, who won EPT San Remo, and the young American is a hair's breadth behind our own Stephen Chidwick here. Definitely a threat to take this down...

Davidi Kitai    544500
Dren Ukella    374500
Daniele Mazzia    374000
Stephen Chidwick    355000
Jason Mercier    345000
Steven Weusten    332000
Sebastian Ruthemberg    326000
Chad Brown    259500
Michael Keiner    293000
Jonas Klausen    237000
Joseph George Pelton    226000
Voitto Rintala    171500
Fintan Gavin    164000
Mikael Lundell    155000
Malte Strothmann    138500
Cornelis Alblas    133000
Ramzi Jelassi    133000
Pierpaolo Ruscalla    123500
Helfried Bernhardt    123500
Claudio Cecchi    120500
Mark Randal Flowers    119000
Jonas Molander    113000
Joel Nordkvist    109000
Salavatore Pengue    105500
Alessandro Longobardi    102000
Samuel Chartier    95500
Martin Nielsen    95000
Alexander Grishchuk    93000
Henri Juho Kristian Koivisto    81500
Alessandro Lusso    70500
Jose Vazquez Ortega    68500
Marko Tapio Vainio    68000
Mauro Corsetti    64500
Ronny Johansen    62500
Benianmino Speroni    59000
Andrey Chesnokov    17500



     


   

[JungleCat03]

Quick note to say the press room is a tad chaotic today with the EPT attracting multiple poker reporting outlets from all over the world battling over the limited ethernet cables that constitute our means of communicating over the internet.

As a result of my quick feline reflexes, I managed to commandeer one early doors, whilst Jen used a less subtle approach, challenging an Italian media outlet to a caged deathmatch, with one of the scarce ethernet cables to the winner.

Taking on four large hairy Italians would be a tough task for most 6 stone women, but Jen is no normal lady and had two of the Italians in a double headlock, when she was assaulted from the rear and the four men managed to just about pin her for a count of three. A massive upset in the press room wrestling world, although we may see a re-match tomorrow, with Jen better able to showcase her favourite finishing manoeveur, the "VDD" or "Verbose Dressing Down" that few people have ever survived.

The unfortunate loss means Jen has been unable to get hold of a working internet connection so far much to her chagrin, but I will be a conduit for the witticisms, astute observations and invented vocabulary that mark Jen out as a unique legend of the updating world.

[Robert HM]

Only 4? She's losing her edge.

Any chance of a prize list please Mr JC?

Oh and more appropriate pics of cats in extremis, as appropriate.

[Djinn]

Exit already!  Within three hands of the action finally kicking off, we lose shortest stacked Andrey Chesnokov.  With under 20k, those chips were always going in right off the bat, and they did, with the surprisingly great holding of .  He was called by Salvatore Pengue with .
Flop: 
Turn:
River:

And any dreams he may have had of shortstack comebacks hit the road.  Still, €17,300 should make it better.



We may be getting more photos like this today, sadly, as for reasonable reasons there is no flash and we're not allowed among the tightly packed tables.  Fair's fair on the players.  We have been promised a Media Rail, but so far it's only been running ten minutes and the rail is ten deep and shouting, elbowing and generally making life difficult.  I remember covering the final stages of Barcelona last year and I have never received so many shoves, minor bruises, elbows etc. from players railing friends or just gawkers who don't really know what's going on but there's a crowd so it must be good... you get the idea.  Deep breath.

[jpean]

[Djinn]

Only 4? She's losing her edge.

Any chance of a prize list please Mr JC?

Oh and more appropriate pics of cats in extremis, as appropriate.

1 - €1,361,000
2 - €792,000
3 - €455,000
4 - €351,000
5 - €292,000
6 - €227,000
7 - €178,000
8 - €119,000

9-10 - €74,400
11-12 - €49,600
13-14 - €37,200
15-16 - €29,700
17-24 - €24,700
25-32 - €19,800
33-40 - €17,300

Are the prizes (thanks Pokerstars).  No, I don't get a cable, but my prototype dialup card is functioning enough to occasionally break through with information.  Or JC's laptop becomes my medium, channelling all the pieces of information he misses while looking for excellent pictures of cats. 

[Eck]

Is the live stream on today?

[jpean]

Is the live stream on today?

http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars/channels/7317.html

[Eck]

Is the live stream on today?

http://www.pokerstars.tv/pokerstars/channels/7317.html

Merci 

[Djinn]

Yes, EPT live should be up and running covering the Feature Table which features Stephen Chidwick and Chad Brown... we have the feed in the press room, which is as close as we're getting to the action, as you can see:



Many languages, class commentators (Benjo, Jan and George just three of them if you're French or German). 

[gobboboy]

Randal Flowers updates pleaaaase!

[jpean]

Many languages, class commentators (Benjo, Jan and George just three of them if you're French or German). 

I don't find who is Benjo... help please ?

[Robert HM]

Only 4? She's losing her edge.

Any chance of a prize list please Mr JC?

Oh and more appropriate pics of cats in extremis, as appropriate.

1 - €1,361,000
2 - €792,000
3 - €455,000
4 - €351,000
5 - €292,000
6 - €227,000
7 - €178,000
8 - €119,000

9-10 - €74,400
11-12 - €49,600
13-14 - €37,200
15-16 - €29,700
17-24 - €24,700
25-32 - €19,800
33-40 - €17,300

Are the prizes (thanks Pokerstars).  No, I don't get a cable, but my prototype dialup card is functioning enough to occasionally break through with information.  Or JC's laptop becomes my medium, channelling all the pieces of information he misses while looking for excellent pictures of cats. 

tyvm