The EWSOP Vienna - Final Day LIVE UPDATE

[Jim-D]

Say  to the gang.

[From left to right]

Wardonkey, RED-DOG, tikay, Julian, ChunkyMick, & Be4Matt.

Not sure why they're all so slanted, really bizarre.

Maybe we're on a ship and no1's told me, although I think I'd probably notice something like that. 

I think its because Wardonkey forgot to shower and his pits are a little whiffy.

[snoopy1239]

We have action...

Jen has legged it up to the final table.

Watch this space!

[Trace]

My my doesn't Red look happy!  lol


Good Afternoon Jen and Snoops, looking forward to some excellent reporting.  Just hope your back seat driver doesn't take over for you both though!


Good luck to all Blondites playing in anything.  lol

Trace
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[Djinn]

A hand has been announced, which can only mean one thing - An ALL-IN!  and....

Andras Karkus has been eliminated in 6th place, for €22,700

Sigi raised, found Tim re-raising, but it was Andros who took him on all-in, with    .  Tim held  , and the flop brought the King, but quickly thereafter the 9 to make Tim Krank a set which housed up on the turn.  Tim is now chip leader - at first break I'll saunter on up to the table to count the chips.

[snoopy1239]

Interestingly, if they struck a deal now and chopped it up equally, they would each take away €65,000 each.

[Djinn]

Chip counts at this Final Table Break...

Ernst Hermans     793,000
Tim Krank           690,000
Mark Bartlog        382,000
Jonathan Plens    298,000
Sigi Stockinger    182,000

So Ernst has regained the lead - lots of smaller pots for the Leader, and the same kind of small lead he held at the start of the day. 

Interesting side point - very early on Day Two we asked El Blondie for his predictions for the final.  The only thing he sounded pretty certain on was a) that Sigi Stockinger would make the final and b) he wouldn't come first, but probably fourth.  Eerie.

[Sue.E.Cidal]

Go Ernst !

At the start he was leading by 30k, now by a hundred... Good stuff !

[snoopy1239]

Some approximate chip-counts:

Plens -- 250k
Stockinger -- 150k
Krank -- 750k
Hermanns -- 650k
Bartlog -- 400k

[snoopy1239]

Ernst doubles through off Tim Krank.

Ernst must have taken a big knock at some point, as he's not massive, even after winning this hand.

He was all-in with against Tim's

Board =

and it's all over before the raggy river.

[Djinn]

Cautionary Tale News Now -

The amiable David Bagheri came in today with some rather alarming news - having been out boozing with friends til late last night, he left a pub at about 5:30am and was followed by a fairly shady lady for a while, who tried to convince him to get into a car.  When it became apparent that he wasn't interested, he noticed someone running at him.  Luckily he seemed fairly capable when it came to self defence and hit the guy in the nose - then another guy (who'd been waiting in the car) tackled him and tore off his jacket sleeve, among other things.  He got up and ran, followed by mugger two, and jumped into a taxi. 

When he got back to his hotel, he found the €400 or so he had on him had disappeared, and told the cab to wait.  But he fell asleep when he got back to his room, and woke up to find the cab driver and some police demanding payment for the last night.  When he told them about what he thought might have been an attempted kidnapping, they didn't believe him and left with his money for the taxi ride.

What this boils down to is a Warning to happy successful poker players who go out in strange cities and talk about how happy and successful at poker they are - large amounts of cash are a beacon for bad guys and David feels lucky to have gotten off so lightly.  A nice guy in the wrong place at the wrong time - so be careful, globetrotters.

[snoopy1239]

I'll just see if I can get Ernst's chip count.

[Sue.E.Cidal]

doubling up sounds good, though if he had as much chips as he did before that must mean Tim is almost a goner... suspense !

[snoopy1239]

doubling up sounds good, though if he had as much chips as he did before that must mean Tim is almost a goner... suspense !

he must have taken a serious knock somewhere down the line I'm afraid, as it didn't seem to take too much of a dent out of Tim's stack.

[Sue.E.Cidal]

oh dear. A count would be very welcome indeed... Where are the blinds and antes at ?

[Djinn]

 Battle between the middling stacks, Mark Bartlog and Jonathan Plens:  Mark raised, and Jonathan pushed in (preflop).  A dwell ensued, as this hand would be pretty much a decider for one or the other of them, and Mark decided to cut his losses, fold, and play as a short stack.