EPT Barcelona Main Event Day 1a | 2007 EPT - Barcelona

08-28-2007 23:48 UTC+3

Interesting Tables: #11

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Table #11 features Johnny Lodden (Norway), Mark Vos (Australia), and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (France), who was recently moved to the table. ElkY is among the chipleaders with over 24,000.

Tags: ElkY Johnny Lodden Mark Vos

08-28-2007 23:43 UTC+3

198 Players Remaining

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There are 198 remaining on 22 tables. The action is currently nine-handed.

08-28-2007 23:26 UTC+3

Early Casualties

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The U.K.'s Philippa Flanders and Ram Vaswani have both been eliminated.

Tags: Philippa Flanders Ram Vaswani

08-28-2007 23:18 UTC+3

How Rayan Nathan Took the Chip Lead

[user25067]

Shortly after the dinner break, Nathan bet out on a {6-Spades}

flop holding {6-Clubs}

. His opponent raised, Nathan moved him all in, and his opponent called, tabling the {3-Diamonds}

for an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw. The turn was a diamond, making his opponent's flush, but the river paired the board giving Nathan the winning full house and sending his stack up to 37,000.

Hailing from Adelaide, South Australia, Nathan won the $5,200 buy-in Melbourne Texas Hold'em Championships this past April, taking home $78,000. He had three cashes at this summer's WSOP, all in hold'em events and also cashed at the Season 3 EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo.

Tags: Rayan Nathan

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

08-28-2007 22:46 UTC+3

Table Talk: Phil Gordon

[user24788]

One player sitting to Phil Gordon's left appears to be a novice. He has been picking up his cards to look at them instead of the usual bend and peek method adopted by most players. He's been playing any face card and has been tossing out the wrong chips. Ironically enough, he's still holding his own.

"He's one of the worst players I have ever seen. Top 5 definitely," said Phil Gordon.

Tags: Phil Gordon