PokerStars EPT, Deauville - Day One, Flight TWO

[tikay]

Afternoon alll!

It's clear & sunny here in Deauville again, though very cold.

The second Day one starts in about half an hour, & after some nasty technical problems this morning, we are ready to rock & roll again.

snippy is here, as is Alright Jack, & Royal Flush has talked his way into the Press Centre, so we are all set.

[snoopy1239]

Hi gang. 

After a slight struggle with tikay's lappie, we're up and running and raring to go.

I believe play commences at 2pm again, but I estimate that it'll be closer to a 2.30 start.

We're joined in the commentary box this morning by Mr Flushy himself, James Dempsey. He's wearing his sheep skin coat and is ready to pass on some pearls of wisdom. hmm... 

I had a bit of a kafuffle this morning with the jacuzzi. I spotted a button on the side of the bath and couldn't resist a quick press.

Vooooom! Blasts of air flew out of the holes and the jacuzzi was up and running. I turned on the tap to fill the bath, but sudenly realised that I probably needed to activate the jacuzzi after filling the bath. All the water sprayed up into the air and I had to swiftly turn the tap off before the people below complained of a leak.

Then I pressed the jacuzzi button again, but, to my dismay, this resulted in more air being blowing up. I had no idea how to turn this bloomin thing off! I kept pressing the button but it made no difference.

In the end, I kind of stood there watching on, somewhat naked, and exceptionally perplexed.

After about ten minutes, I decided to press the button again... and voila, it deactivated. Thank God. That call to reception could have been embarrassing.

Anyhow, I plopped myself into the bath and filled it up. Once filled, I sat back, relaxed and enjoyed my bathe.

After a few minutes, the jacuzzi activated again and went right up my exit hole. Completely out of the blue! 

Weeeeee!!! I leapt up into the air and started ramming the button again. Luckily, I was able to turn it off immediately.

All in all, a very bizarre start to the day and I entered the casino with a slight limp. 

You don't get too many jacuzzis in Brum, so this was my first AND LAST encounter with the bathroom implement...

[tikay]

The Chip Counts for the first Day One are at the end of the Day One, Flight One thread (yesterday's thread).

If someone at home has a mo to spare, maybe the could C & Pthem onto this thread please, so we can all easily see how things ended up without flicking between threads. Thanks..

[snoopy1239]

Robert Cohen 117,450
Theo Jorgensen  111,175
Frederik Hostrup  105,850
Mike Hermes   84,600
Henrik Olander  83,500
Roy Brindley  73,925
Patric Martensson  73,325
Jon Hewston  71,875
Stuart Fox  66,600
Ram Vaswani  61,150

Jeff Sharpe  59,800
Ole Busborg Jensen 59,200
Torstein Iversen  52,625
Xanthos Charalambos  51,175
Stuart Nash  45,200
Jacky Adda  44,975
B. Gilbert  41,725
James Dempsey  40,550
Erik Van Der Bourg  35,875
Daniel Nilsson  35,800

Marc Naalden  35,150
Marc Goodwin  34,000
Paul Van Wijk  33,675
Kenneth Johnson  32,750
R. Tykoczikosky  31,925
Xavier Laszcz  31,450
Michel Abecassis  31,000
Charlie Harvey  29,350
Henrik Gwinner  27,400
Nick Chanas  23,600

Aleksander Liberg  23,225
Juan Florez  23,200
Malcom Gorse  21,975
Elie Marciano  21,500
Danny  Ticer  21,475
Andreas Berg  21,275
Ross Boatman  21,225
Mark Boudewijn  21,150
David O`Callaghan  21,000
Ryan Fronda  20,650

Robert Price  20,175
Kirill Gerasimov  19,750
Carlos Da Silva  19,400
Frode Fagerli  18,500
Alex Michaels  18,125
Cametti  18,000
Ken Powell  16,250
Tim Klarpas  16,150
Mathias Greg  15,650
Bernt Grytdahl  15,325

John Falconer  15,100
Joep Durkstra  15,050
Martin Pollak  14,550
Stian Godderstad  13,675
J. Kruijer  13,650
Nick Sherman  13,050

[tikay]

Our apologies for the fact that the Forum slowed down a tad last night, we had technical "issues", & the Forum was very busy indeed. The Techs have been under the bonnet this morning to see if they can fix it, hopefully it will be better today. The pics, I'm told, "don't help", but we intend to persevere & keep Posting the pics as long as we can.

[Robert HM]

Looking forward to another day of updates.

Snoops, I think you have discovered a way of putting Dingdell out of a job.

[tikay]

Part of the problem is the "available bandwidth" at this end, we have a whole bunch og guys using the local Wi-Fi, & some of the guys are video streaming & sending huge "packets" of info, which means all of us are struggling with access speed, but anyway, enough excuses, lets get on with it.

[RED-DOG]

Hi gang. 



After a few minutes, the jacuzzi activated again and went right up my exit hole. Completely out of the blue! 

Don't you mean completely into the brown?

Good afternoon guys

[Junior Senior]

Hi gang. 

After a slight struggle with tikay's lappie, we're up and running and raring to go.

I believe play commences at 2pm again, but I estimate that it'll be closer to a 2.30 start.

We're joined in the commentary box this morning by Mr Flushy himself, James Dempsey. He's wearing his sheep skin coat and is ready to pass on some pearls of wisdom. hmm... 

I had a bit of a kafuffle this morning with the jacuzzi. I spotted a button on the side of the bath and couldn't resist a quick press.

Vooooom! Blasts of air flew out of the holes and the jacuzzi was up and running. I turned on the tap to fill the bath, but sudenly realised that I probably needed to activate the jacuzzi after filling the bath. All the water sprayed up into the air and I had to swiftly turn the tap off before the people below complained of a leak.

Then I pressed the jacuzzi button again, but, to my dismay, this resulted in more air being blowing up. I had no idea how to turn this bloomin thing off! I kept pressing the button but it made no difference.

In the end, I kind of stood there watching on, somewhat naked, and exceptionally perplexed.

After about ten minutes, I decided to press the button again... and voila, it deactivated. Thank God. That call to reception could have been embarrassing.

Anyhow, I plopped myself into the bath and filled it up. Once filled, I sat back, relaxed and enjoyed my bathe.

After a few minutes, the jacuzzi activated again and went right up my exit hole. Completely out of the blue! 

Weeeeee!!! I leapt up into the air and started ramming the button again. Luckily, I was able to turn it off immediately.

All in all, a very bizarre start to the day and I entered the casino with a slight limp. 

You don't get too many jacuzzis in Brum, so this was my first AND LAST encounter with the bathroom implement...

I'm from mansfield - if we want a jacuzzi we just fart in the bath - its cheaper! :-)

[snoopy1239]

Well, it's 2pm but play is yet to commence.

I've spotted a few familiar faces:

Iwan Jones
Simon Zach (same table as Iwan)
Greg Raymer
Paul Alterman
Dan Samson
Steve Vladar
Carlo Citrone
Jeff Buffenbarger
Mads Andersen (Scandinavian Open winner)
Barny Boatman
Dave Colclough (early!)

I think a few of the stars like to arrive fashionably late.

There is also a feature table being prepared. I still haven't worked out why they don't have one for Day 1A

[snoopy1239]

Looking forward to another day of updates.

Snoops, I think you have discovered a way of putting Dingdell out of a job.

Please explain yourself Mr HM.

[snoopy1239]

Big TK is addressing the players and I believe we may be about to start.

[AlrightJack]

Afternoon folks!

On my way to the press centre I passed Greg Raymer and Isabelle Mercier sitting at a table ahead of their starts in the event today. I've no idea how their conversation started but this is what I heard...

Greg Raymer (to Isabelle Mercier): "So,a slug is a snail without a shell. Now, the sea cucumber...."

[RED-DOG]

Big TK is addressing the players and I believe we may be about to start.

Is he going to mail them to their seats?

[tikay]

Play has not commenced yet, the players are taking their seats. I will go & find Jen, Dave, Thewy, & all our "faces to follow" shortly.

I have also seen Julian Gardner - now sponsored by Virgin, Neil Channing, Vicky Coren, in a Paradise poker shirt, Rory Liffey, Iwan Jones, Smokin Steve Vladar, & many many others.

And at this very moment, Thomas Kremser announces "SHUFFLE UP & DEAL".