Yes we have a series going on here and the two stars are Peter Bosen and Andrew Schneider. If you remember last time Bosen was the huge Chip Leader at the table, Schneider took some chips off him during a hand and no-one on the table was allowed to speak. Well guess what? It has happened again.
Bosen makes it 750 from middle position and gets three callers, two behind him and Schneider in the small blind. The flop was and everyone checked very quietly. The turn was and Bosen bet 1,800 very quietly. Two people folded and then Schneider check-raised to 5,050. Bosen quietly made the call. The dealer laid the out on the deck and Schneider with ~18,000 behind bet 7,050. Bosen put his hand on his head in a "not again" type manner and folded.
Bosen's stack remains a formidable one though ~105,000
Although identified by our excellent table draw as Constantin Ciprian Cirstea and Nima Ahary, the players involved in this hand could have shifted (and neither name is rewarded with a treasure trove of images on databases etc.). People who know the former may be able to identify him by this detail of dress: he's wearing the hood of a parka of moderate puffiness - but no parka. It looks truly odd.
Anyhow he just suffered a knock back to 31,500 (possibly further by now if the stack banging signs of tilt have led to its actualisation) despite having those nice-looking . The big river bet (8k or so) which he faced from Ahary he just flat called on a board which had come , showing his Aces in frustration while Ahary flipped . He said something not in English which is nevertheless easily translatable.
After yesterday's 234-strong field managed to boast a grand total of one - one - woman in the shape of Almira Skripchenko who did not, in the event, proceed to Day 2, today's tally of four women playing the tournament seems a little more respectable.
That's right, almost one whole percent of the field today consisted of female poker players - and weirdly, two of them are seated next to each other right now. Alexia Portal, the French actress turned poker player who narrowly missed out on a final table at EPT Deauville, has just been moved next door to Maria Maceiras, sister of Team PokerStars Pro Juan Maceiras and a successful pro in her own right. Portal has position on Maceiras, and right now has the chip advantage too - she's at 53,000 to Maceiras' 25,000 or so. Also at their table are Boris Becker and Khiem Nguyen.
The other two ladies playing Day 1b have had similarly mixed fortunes. Team PokerStars SportStar Fatima Moreira de Melo has fallen a little from her earlier 83,000 high point - but at 70,000 now she's still got around twice the average stack. Meanwhile Hungary's Kati Jerney, who made the last two tables at EPT San Remo in 2009, will definitely not be repeating the result here in Vienna - she's already busto.
Table 29 is starting to get very interesting. We have Daniel Drescher, Andrew Teng, Jim Collopy and Team Pokerstars Pro Daniel Minieri all playing mind games with one another.
We pick up this hand after Minieri had been away from the table for a long time while talking on his phone. He returned to make a raise of 1,000 from early position which received a call from the cut-off and Collopy who was sat in the Big Blind. The flop was . Collopy checked to Minieri who bet 2,150. The cut-off folded and Collopy called. Now to the turn which was the , Minieri had his head bowed and Collopy looked straight forward - eyes concealed by shades. Collopy once again checked and this time Minieri bet 4,450 and again Collopy made the call. The river was the and Collopy checked for the third time. Minieri also checked and Collopy dropped his head for the first time throughout the hand as he showed an exasperated for the full house. Minieri escpaed that little trap but his stack has dwindled to ~45,000
At his new table, Marcel Luske's fortunes have not fared well, and after a river bluff was called he was prepared to lose the pot - but nearly found himself winning it through a vision-related misread!
His opponent spoke to him in German and wears small rectangular glasses - we have him listed as Claudio Simaldoni with a stack of over 75k but there's been a fair magimix of players today as tables have been restocked, broken and moved and the tried and tested method of 'asking in the break' will need to be employed.
In the hand, Luske had bet 4k on the river with the board standing and his opponent took his time before finally making the call. Luske turned his hand immediately and with a firm, expressionless motion, never mind the fact that it was . So confident did he seem that his opponent accidentally slowrolled his which he thought he was flashing so that Luske, with could see. In fact, this was the winning hand, which scooped the pot as soon as it was on its back.
There followed some multilingual confusion as the winner tried to tell Luske that he hadn't actually slowrolled him, just confused a four for an ace and thought he'd had the wrong read, when actually he was spot on.
"It's because no one said anything," prompted the dealer.
"I'd rather have him muck his hand if he thinks he loses!" laughed Luske, clearly not pro help in hand reading.
It looks as though Ramzi Jelassi's new accountancy trip has not had the desired effect on his stack size, as he's back down to around 30 big blinds.
We just caught the end of the hand, on the turn - the board reading with 6,000 in the pot - and a very sleepy Daniel Negreanu was betting out enough to set Jelassi in. He tanked up for a while, making small movements with his hands as though going to put his chips in the middle and then thinking better of it - but eventually he passed, and was left with 12,000.
It has all been kicking off at Table 28. We arrived to see a board of and what must have been a pre flop all-in by Daniele Mazzia. There was 27,000 in the pot and Adam Jerney declared all-in for a total of 11,250 on the flop. The decision was back on Dieter Albrecht and he decided to make the call.
Daniele Mazzia:
Dieter Albrecht:
Adam Jerney:
The turn and river were and respectively. Jerney's pocket sevens held up and the 50,000 pot was shipped over to him much to the joy of his supporting wife Kati Jerney. Mazzia was eliminated and Albrecht had a much lighter stack than he has started with.
Giuseppe Zarbo is not a retiring player: with a bright blue jacket proclaiming ITALIA across the front, he has, we discovered, a quiet routine when he gets his stack in. He brought out a very large pair of sunglasses when his final decision was made, and then flicked an invisible switch and their rims started flashing blue.
The flop which proved his last was - he had just 10,250 and with was happy to commit it (the last chips he sort of slid into the pot off a kind of glass plinth they were resting on). His opponent had flopped a set, though, with and he had to watch as the river brought him a painfully pointless . He had to exit cutting a figure like a sad Timmy Mallet.
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and everyone checked very quietly. The turn was 
and Bosen bet 1,800 very quietly. Two people folded and then Schneider check-raised to 5,050. Bosen quietly made the call. The dealer laid the 
out on the deck and Schneider with ~18,000 behind bet 7,050. Bosen put his hand on his head in a "not again" type manner and folded.
. The big river bet (8k or so) which he faced from Ahary he just flat called on a board which had come 
, showing his Aces in frustration while Ahary flipped 
. He said something not in English which is nevertheless easily translatable.
. Collopy checked to Minieri who bet 2,150. The cut-off folded and Collopy called. Now to the turn which was the 
, Minieri had his head bowed and Collopy looked straight forward - eyes concealed by shades. Collopy once again checked and this time Minieri bet 4,450 and again Collopy made the call. The river was the 
and Collopy checked for the third time. Minieri also checked and Collopy dropped his head for the first time throughout the hand as he showed an exasperated 
for the full house. Minieri escpaed that little trap but his stack has dwindled to ~45,000
. So confident did he seem that his opponent accidentally slowrolled his 
which he thought he was flashing so that Luske, with 
could see. In fact, this was the winning hand, which scooped the pot as soon as it was on its back.
and 
- he had just 10,250 and with 
was happy to commit it (the last chips he sort of slid into the pot off a kind of glass plinth they were resting on). His opponent had flopped a set, though, with 