Player | Chips | Progress |
---|---|---|
Catherine Hong
|
89,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Tom Marchese |
67,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Thomas Bichon |
66,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Kevin MacPhee |
64,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
Jake Cody |
61,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
||
Jeff Madsen |
49,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
Julien Brecard |
45,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
Ivan Demidov |
45,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Anton Wigg |
45,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
|
||
Vicky Coren
|
44,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
Scott Fischman |
43,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
Shannon Shorr |
43,000
13,000
|
13,000 |
Greg Raymer |
43,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
Jason Senti |
38,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
37,000 | |
Will Failla | 36,000 | |
Joep van den Bijgaart |
35,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
Arnaud Mattern |
34,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
Neil Channing | 32,000 | |
David Steicke |
32,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
Marcin Horecki |
31,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Celina Lin |
30,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
Marcel Luske |
29,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
Dan Smith |
29,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
||
Vitaly Lunkin | 27,000 |
2010 PokerStars.com EPT London
Our Dutch friends are all hovering around one table, and we figured we should probably see what was going on.
What was going on was the chip leader dragging another pot. It's Peter Michael de Goede as it's listed on the registration list. Our Netherlanders tell us he's called "Pim" though, so that's what we'll go with.
By any name, de Goede is the chip leader with just about 125,000 already.
Vanessa Rousso has taken a small hit doubling up a short stack.
Rousso:
Doubler-upper:
Board:
Not to worry, though, Rousso fans, Chad Brown, etc. - the shortie only had 4,000 or so before the hand and Rousso is still at 27,000.
When we discovered Allan Baekke earlier, the Snowfest EPT winner was down to 15,000. "Long way to go," he said with a smile.
He's doing much better now though, 3-betting Shannon Shorr before getting the young American off the hand on the turn of board with a 6,300 bet after Shorr had called the flop bet of 2,250.
Andrew Chen picked up a nice chunky pot after betting 1,200 from the cutoff to a check from the player in the small blind. Mr. Small Blind, who looks to us like a very very young Julien Brecard, made the call.
Brecard Jr. check-called another 2,800 on the turn, although there was a bit of a tank attached to it this time; the tanking increased when Chen bet 6,600 on the river but it was again followed by a call.
Chen turned over for two pair, and his opponent mucked, looking a bit sheepish. Chen's up to 40,000.
Everyone's favorite EPT regular, Luca Pagano seems to have left the building. We watched him drape his gig bag over his shoulder and walk briskly towards the exit, staring at the carpet the whole way. Luca is usually pretty friendly with us media-types, but we didn't dare halt his speedy exit this time as the scowl on his face told the story. Pagano shook hands with Thomas Kremser without saying a word or slowing down, and he vanished in the distance.
It's an unusually early exit for the bedazzled Italian pro, the EPT's all-time leading casher. He notched six in the last full EPT season, and he already cashed in the first two of Season 7, Tallinn and Vilamoura. Those two brought his total to a staggering sixteen EPT cashes in his career, but he won't be picking up another one here this week.
Also just exiting were David Peters and Chris Moorman. gg.
Ben Wilinofsky had pushed all-in for his last 11,000 on the river of a board but got called by his opponent in seat 9. Wilinofsky didn't want to show but given that he was all-in, the dealer got him to flip his busted flush-draw holding of . His opponent having made a good to pick up the pot.
All eyes were on Joao Azevedo at table 18, not because he was in a hand but he was deep in concentration, focused purely on the job in hand...
He was playing Angry Birds on his iPad which seemed to have distracted most of the table for the actual task in hand. Why worry about a £5,000 tournament when there's one level on Angry Birds you haven't got three stars on?
Chip monster Pim de Goede (pronounced roughly "Pim de Hoodie") is up to over 160,000. He was last spotted four-betting to cover fellow Dutchie Joep van den Bijgaart (pronounced "Yoop van den Bye-Heart"). Van den Bijgaart had only 3,000 or so invested in the hand and had 26,000 remaining, so he did the decent thing and folded.
Just as we got to the break, Nicky Evans knocked an Italian player to add about 11,000 to his stack when the Englishman's held fairly easily against his Italian opponent's on a board.
Evans up to about 60,000