PokerStars EPT Dublin Main Event Day 1b | 2007 PokerStars EPT - Dublin

PokerStars EPT Dublin Main Event

Day 1b Completed

11-01-2007 03:30 UTC+2

Official Chip Counts

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The following is a complete list of the players who have reached Day 2, along with their chip counts:

Ludovic Lacay 85225
Liam Flood 75750
Trond Eidsvig 70475
Mike McDonald 67250
Philip Hardy 62600
Dave Colclough 59350
Michael Martin 57950
Mark Roland 56625
Phidias Georgiou 55475
Barry McGrath 54625
Simon Munoz 54200
Kristian Kjøndal 53150
Ian Cox 48250
Jacques Zaicik 48225
Raymi Thörn 46875
Arshad Hussain 46425
Runar Runarsson 46400
Andrew Black 45675
Simon Christensson 45000
Jose Collado 44650
Guillaume De La Gorce 43600
Christoffer Hansen 43050
Thor Hansen 42900
Kevin Vreeswijk 42725
Marcel Baran 40150
Henric Stråth 39000
Csaba Malnai 37250
Johnny Lodden 37225
Casper Hansen 37150
Johannes Steindl 36500
Adrian Koy 35850
Justin Francis 35750
Andrew Grimason 35400
Sebastian Ruthenberg 35175
Tommi Lindfors 35000
Annette Obrestad 34925
Oran Holt 33450
Josh Gould 32025
Bart Wetsteijn 31550
Andreas Hagan 31150
Kenneth Hicks Jr 30950
Tony Cascarino 30600
Aleksandr Arutjonov 30150
Luca Pagano 27975
Noah Boeken 27825
Daniel Ryan 27550
Surinder Sunar 27250
Michael Durrer 27225
Vinh Nguyen 26950
Carl Hostrup-Pedersen 26850
Brandon Schaefer 26725
Stig Top Rasmussen 26300
Andreas Hoivold 25800
Paddy McCloskey 25550
Albert Smith 25200
Martin Wendt 25125
Chuc Hoang 24625
Ian Woodley 24550
Raul Mestre 24425
Jonathon Butters 24375
Ziad Kaady 24100
Paul Cryan 22700
Jan Veit 22575
Sami Kalopuro 22325
Chris Bush 22225
Carlo Gabriele 21675
Roman Yitzhaki 21525
Anders Pettersson 20725
Lars-Ola Svensson 20375
Anthony Roux 19975
Alan Trueick 19275
Christopher Hamman 18875
Florian Langmann 18725
Hans Eskilsson 18550
Mark Segal 18500
Mika Paasonen 18450
Gijsbertus Spijkers 18450
George McKeever 18325
Juha Helppi 18100
Paul Testud 17750
Paul Gourlay 17700
Reijo Manninen 17525
Len Collin 17275
Arnaud Mattern 16900
Jonas Molander 16850
Chris Smith 16625
Paul Ohehir 16375
Michael Hogbom 16100
Michiel Brummelhuis 15700
Katja Thater 15650
Gustaf Jonasson 15200
Johan Storakers 15050
Terry Cook 14625
Thierry van den Berg 14250
Daan Ruiter 14125
Terje Augdal 13925
Antonio Lemos 13800
Ben Grundy 13750
Robert Glavin 13650
Lino Cunha 13550
Nicolas Levi 13350
Patrick O'Connor 12200
Ramzi Jelassi 12075
Richard Ashby 12000
Lars Sjölin 11625
John Conroy 11525
Paul Leckey 11225
Reuben Peters 11050
Antoon Kleynen 10950
Alexander Fitzgerald 10800
Mathieu Gallienne 10750
Martin Rask 10175
Alan Smurfit 10125
Christian Taepper 9925
Sean Donaldson 9825
Martin Green 9500
Jean-Claude Perrot 9475
Davide Calabro 8125
Patric Fredriksson 5850
Jan Sjavik 5450
Mark Bointon 5150
Seth Blackman 5000

11-01-2007 01:14 UTC+2

Day 1b is a Wrap

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Day 1 play from here in the RDS complex is officially complete. The (approx.) 75 players who made it through the evening will join the 48 Day 1a survivors tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 p.m. local time for Day 2 play.

Amongst some of the notable Day 1b names still alive in the field are Annette Obrestad, Thor Hansen, Liam Flood, Luca Pagano, Surinder Sunar, Katja Thater and Juha Helppi. Despite the large contingent of A-list pros who came out to play on Day 1b, it was Ludovic Lacay who stole the show, amassing a field-leading stack with his super aggressive strategy. We’ll post the official chip counts after the tournament staff bags up all of the chips and ships the counts our way.

Players will redraw new seats for Day 2 and we’re told play will be eight-handed to start the day. The total prizepool for the event came out to be €1,701,700 (approximately $2.45 million USD). Join us at 2:00 p.m. local time for our continued coverage of the PokerStars.com EPT Dublin as we play down to 24 players. Until then, good luck and good night from Dublin!

11-01-2007 00:55 UTC+2

Seven More Hands

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The tournament director has paused the tournament clock and instructed the dealers to deal seven more hands at each table.

According to Kremser, the plan for tomorrow is to play down to the money (24 players) and then on Friday we'll play down to a final table.

11-01-2007 00:44 UTC+2

Tournament Tidbits

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The tournament clock reads 20 minutes and counting, though we expect tournament director Thomas Kremser to stop play with approximately seven minutes remaining and instruct each table to play X number of hands to close out the night.

Surinder Sunar has lost a bit of his muster and has dropped to approximately 20,000 in chips, while Annette Obrestad has climbed to 26,000.

Ben Grundy is short-stacked at the moment, currently sitting with 4,700 in chips.

Tags: Surinder Sunar

11-01-2007 00:31 UTC+2

The Lacay Show

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Frenchman Ludovic Lacay is putting on a poker clinic at his table, employing a hyper-aggressive strategy and playing almost every other hand. He's steadily chipped up all day and is fast approaching 100,000 in chips.

Ludovic's only major live cash occurred earlier this month and it was a big one: a second place finish at the WPT Spanish Championship, worth € 295,200.

Tags: Ludovic Lacay

11-01-2007 00:27 UTC+2

Two Little Ducks Win a Big Pot!

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Trond Eidsvig called a raise in the small blind from Aidan Quin who was in the cutoff.

The flop came down {2-Clubs}

and Trond checked. Aidan bet 3,000 and Trond moved all in, covering Aidan who had 20,000 left. A small dwell followed before Aidan called.

Trond: {2-Spades}

Aidan:

Aidan had one out as another player announced he had folded an ace, but it never materialized.

Tags: Aidan Quin Trond Eidsvig

11-01-2007 00:21 UTC+2

Mestre Eliminates Patrick Bruel

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Raul Mestre eliminated Frenchman Patrick Bruel in a classic coin-flip situation, {A-Hearts}

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. Mestre spiked a king on the turn to take control of the hand, as the board filled out: {4-Hearts}

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Tags: Raul Mestre

11-01-2007 00:12 UTC+2

Irish-on-Irish Action!

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Liam Flood raises on the button and Roy Brindley calls from the small blind.

The flop is nine high with two clubs, and Roy check-raises to 9,000. Liam's response is to push over the top and Roy -- pot committed now with over half his stack in the middle -- calls with {J-Clubs}