LIVE UPDATE NORWEGIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS DAY 2

[snoopy1239]

9 players left (1 table)
350k = av stack
blinds = 6k/12k (2k)
They've been playing for over 28 hours. Blimey.

[NoflopsHomer]

Battle of the blind news:

Faaascha (in the small blind) bets a flop of .

Inspecta smooth calls.

Turn =

Faaascha checks, Inspecta bets 35k, Faaaascha calls.

River =

Faaascha checks again, Inspecta bets again, this time 40k, and Faaascha reraises.

Inspecta folds instantly.

Something tells me that he didn't have much.

Both hands mucked so no cards shown. Bah!

10,9 vs J8?

[Djinn]

Fairly interesting hand here - Yang Ying raises a standard 36k raise in early position.  Faaascha string raises and is told he can only flat call.  Everyone else folds, including OELoose in the big blind - reluctantly.

Flop:    OE makes a kind of "oh arse" kind of humph noise, and I must have missed YY's check because there was suddenly about 70k bet by Faaascha.  Yang Ying folds very quickly and is shown, er, .  Pretty odd all round.

[snoopy1239]

And we have an all-in and potential exit...

Stianhos raises 40k preflop, Toon moves all-in from the small blind.

Could be a steal as he has enough to make the original raiser fold, but I doubt he's going to release Big Slick.

Shame he's up against pocket cowboys.

So... K-K v A-K

Harmless board and Toon doubles through.

One second, another all-in announced.

Jen's on the case...

[Djinn]

So Stianhos is the one moving all-in now in early position, and it folded round to Johnny Lodden on the big blind.  It was only around 75k, and after a bit of frowning descriptive of mulling a sort of middling decision, he went for it and called with - Stianhos had found a good time for the and they stood up, putting him back in the final running.

[Djinn]

Now around 200k passes from small blind Lodden to big blind Morty Black -
With the board looking like Johnny bet out maybe 100k, Morty Black pushed all-in for around three times that (hard to count stacks sorry) and eventually Johnny folded.

He was shown .  The kind of board which could flush or trip you up, as it were...

[snoopy1239]

OELoose doubles up due to a gamble call on his part.

He was faced with an all-in, and he decided to take a stab with , praying that he had live cards.

his prayers were answered when Faaascha flipped over

And he was rewarded even more when the flop came...



Faaascha still had a fair few outs, but some were eliminated by the on the turn which gave OELoose a flush draw to go with his pair.

blank on the river and the victor of the hands slaps his hands together in celebration.

[Djinn]

More hot water for the chip leader - in a limpy threeway pot the flop came .  It checked round.
Turn:    This time when it checked round to Johnny Lodden he bet 36k (?am slowly picking up the numbers but it is in another language after all) and Inspecta called.
River: .  Inspecta checked, Johnny bet 80k.  A long pause.  Call.

Johnny tapped the table showing
Inspecta showed a blind-provided to win with the (second) pair of threes.  Marvellous.

[Djinn]

<aside>  There are little speakers in the corner of the room playing music at taxi-driver volume.  You can almost hear it if you're listening, but the players are probably so preoccupied that they don't even notice it.  Just thought how surreal it was to be watching a final table commentated upon entirely in Norwegian with "Under the Boardwalk" playing ever so softly in the background.  I like my job!   

[background]

Looks like you are the only updater still hanging on, wsop.info is down and bout cardplayernorge.com and poker.no have lost their comentators, keep up the good work

[snoopy1239]

Hold the bus...

I think Ying has lost his Yang.

[Djinn]

Yang Ying finishes in 9th place, winning $5,000

In one of those small blind  moves, Yang Ying pushed in for his remaining chips with .  Fair enough, but Toon's push-in from the big blind with soon frustrated his hopes for even a race.  The board:  and the first final tablist gets the Congratulations Clap.

[snoopy1239]

I'm sure the dude on the mic just said, 'Lodden winnen potten'. 

[Djinn]

Carlosgutten is OUT in 8th place, winning $8,000

OELoose raised on the button, and I think it all got in with just one re-raise all in from Carlos on the big blind.  OE called with his (as you do) and found against him... .

The Queen flopped and it was curtains for the brave Carlosgutten.  He'd gone on a big old spin up run today, but that's a tough final table and it wasn't to last.

[snoopy1239]

A rare 3-way pot (yes, you heard right, more than 2!):

Stianhos, Lodden, and Mortyblack see a flop of 2-3-4, the latter two in the blinds (small and big respectively).

Mortyblack bets 70k, both opponents fold.

Mortyblack shows A-5 for the straight.

Eek