€5,300 EPT San Remo Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT San Remo

04-19-2009 21:24 UTC+3

A Few Chip Counts For Your Delectation

[user46392]

Among those players neither busto nor at dinner:

Liam Flood: 14,000
Andreas Krause: 3,250
Marcel Luske: 26,000
John O'Shea: 17,500
Ramzi Jelassi: 26,000
Dara O'Kearney: 8,000
Alexia Portal: 13,500
Nick Gibson: 11,100
Katja Thater: 11,400
Jonas Molander: 14,000
Luca Pagano: 17,500
Bill Chen: 5,000
Thierry van den Berg: 20,000

04-19-2009 21:17 UTC+3

Minieri Shrinks to Nothing

[user46392]

Also conspicuous by his absence is everyone's favorite tiny be-scarved Italian Dario Minieri.

Tags: Dario Minieri

04-19-2009 21:14 UTC+3

Broeken

[user66118]

We have one more presumed casualty of Day 1b: Noah Boeken has been missing for about half a level now, and we still can't spot his graffitied shirt anywhere. We're still hunting through the crowds returning from dinner, but it appears the PokerStars Pro has just gone the way of the Pterodactyl.

Tags: Noah Boeken

04-19-2009 21:03 UTC+3

Antonius Gets the Boutboul

[user46392]

Henri Boutboul raised in the cutoff only for Patrik Antonius to shove from the small blind. An insta-call from Boutboul, and it was a clinical affair.

Antonius: {7-Clubs}

Boutboul:

Board:

The ladies in the building have become considerably less interested in this tournament, as Mr. Antonius makes his exit.

Tags: Patrik Antonius

Level: 6

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25

04-19-2009 20:58 UTC+3

Sahamies Tentatively Declared Bust

[user46392]

It is possible of course that he has merely moved seats and then been sent out for dinner, but Ilari Sahamies is nowhere to be seen. There's an empty space where he used to be, and in the seat next to him Ivo Donev seems to have accumulated an awful lot of chips, among them most of the green 25 chips at the table, which Sahamies was previously hoarding...

Tags: Ilari Sahamies

04-19-2009 20:57 UTC+3

Luske Hates the Button

[user75032]

A new dealer pushed into Marcel Luske's table and noticed that the Singing Dutchman had taken the round, white, plastic table number button off of the felt in front of his seat and stuck it on the rail. The dealer grabbed the button off of the table and stuck it back on the felt in front of Luske, irritating him. He wagged a finger at her, said, "No, no, no," and pulled the button off the felt and replaced it on the rail. The dealer told Luske that the table number must stay on the table.

"Every time I think I'm the [dealer] button," said Luske. "I don't want it there. You're the first one to complain. Call the floor."

The dealer did as Luske requested and summoned a floor to the table. He listened to Luske's story and came up with the solution of putting the table number on the other side of the dealer box, in front of the 1-seat.

"Now he's going to think he's the button," said Luske. It also seemed to us that Luske might think that the 1-seat was the button in certain hands, especially from his limited vantage on the other side of the dealer box. Nonetheless, the 1-seat didn't mind the switch and (for now) Luske seems mollified. It probably helps that he has almost 22,000 chips.

Tags: Marcel Luske

04-19-2009 20:42 UTC+3

Jelassi Doubles Through Mustache

[user46392]

There was a raise in early position and both John O'Shea and an impressively-mustachioed gentleman on the button called. Over to Ramzi Jelassi in the small blind, who decided it was a good time to shove. He did just that.

The original raiser and O'Shea folded, but the gent on the button, covered by Jelassi, called all in. On their backs.

Jelassi: {A-Clubs}

Mr. Mustache: {5-Spades}

Board:

"One time," said a very happy Jelassi, clapping his hands as the disgruntled bustee and his mustache picked up their cigarettes and departed.

Jelassi is now up to 22,275. "Give or take."

Tags: John O'Shea moustache Ramzi Jelassi

04-19-2009 20:36 UTC+3

A Few Chip Counts

[user46392]

From those not on dinner.

John Tabatabai: 7,000, a huge improvement on his earlier 2,000.
Ben Grundy: 18,000
Michael Greco: 8,000
Max Pescatori: 19,000
Steve Jelinek: 3,400
Erich Kollmann: 16,500
Isabelle Mercier: 9,800
Richard "Chufty" Ashby: 4,000

04-19-2009 20:36 UTC+3

More Chips for Kollmann

[user75032]

Erich Kollmann has bee keeping pots small today and it's working out for him. He limped into another five-way pot, then opened the action for 1,100 after the blinds checked the {9-Clubs}