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Right, we have now dispensed with guesswork and discovered we slightly underestimated Norwegian Henning Granstad's pile of blues and reds. He still has the chip lead, with marginally more than Patric Martensson. One up to the Norwegians! Well, it was very late.......here is the official count:
80,800 - Henning Granstad (Norway)
79,000 - Patric Martensson (Sweden)
61,300 - Raymi Sanchez Thorn (Sweden)
60,600 - Thomas Mathiesen (Norway)
58,800 - Leszek Krawczyński (Poland)
56,600 - Thomas Osmun (USA)
55,200 - Ramzi Jelassi (Sweden)
54,200 - Mikael Westerlund (Sweden)
53,300 - Dariusz Paszkiewicz (Poland)
46,200 - Mark Petersen (Denmark)
44,400 - Jim Kerrigan (UK)
44,200 - Spencer Lawrence (UK)
41,900 - Andreas Hoivold (Norway)
36,700 - Kasper Bisgaard Nielsen (Denmark)
35,600 - Martin Ostby (Norway)
34,500 - Sondre Sagstuen (Norway)
32,700 - Paul McCann (UK)
31,500 - Kristian Kjondal (Norway)
29,300 - Kevin Love (UK)
28,900 - Soren Bakfort (Denmark)
28,700 - Craig Wexler (USA)
28,000 - Nikolas Liakos (Sweden)
27,000 - Tom Schasfoort (Holland)
26,700 - Stuart Wilson (UK)
25,500 - Dennis Plejdrup (Denmark)
25,300 - Janne Jutilainen (Finland)
23,300 - Finn-Erik Egeland (Norway)
19,700 - Michał Panasiuk (Poland)
18,000 - Jesper Petersen (Denmark)
16,000 - Priyan De Mel (UK)
15,700 - Russell Carson (Canada)
14,100 - Tim Gillig (Germany)
13,600 - Patrice Boudet (France)
13,000 - Simon Young (UK)
11,700 - Jaakko Penttinen (Finland)
11,400 - Ulrik Pedersen (Denmark)
11,200 - Kalevi Haikola (Finland)
11,200 - Simone Rossi (Spain)
10,100 - Annica Ivert (Sweden)
8,700 - Damian Porębski (Poland)
8,500 - Albano Mathieu (France)
7,400 - Morten Huseby Haakenstad (Norway)
6,800 - Pyysing Aki (Finland)
6,100 - Axel Herbst (Germany)
6,100 - Bjorn Erik Suhr (Norway)
The official list in fact shows 45 players with their chips adding up to 1,359,500, one 500 chip short of the 136 x 10,000. So, it may well be 45 remaining although the closing statistics said 46.
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At last, approaching 1.30am local time, level 9 has ended leaving 46 players from the original 136 that started.
From a brisk scan of the stacks entering envelopes, it looks like Patric Martensson of Sweden with 79,000 is the chip leader. Henning Granstad still has in the region of 70k. Thomas Osmun had dropped back a little to 56,000.
There are bound to be a few we've missed but we will get official counts confirmed tomorrow. Check back with us then.
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In a three-way battle on the Table of Death, Mads Andersen got involved with pocket queens, while Johnny Lodden, now getting low, put it all in with A7. Sweden's Ramzi Jelassi, yet another recent addition of Scandinavian skill to the table, called with AK. The flop showed an ace and two low cards. The remaining ace then also came down but the low rags meant that Ramzi's king kicker played, kicking Lodden out of the tournament. Andersen wasn't best pleased either.
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Jim Kerrigan tots up his winnings
UK's Jim Kerrigan took out another short stack just prior to the last level when, on a flop of , he was presented with an all-in raise of about 6,000. Jim got busy with the verbals seeking information but was met with a sun-shaded look of indifference. It didn't matter; Jim felt his to be good and called. His crestfallen opponent surrendered his and walked the plank when the high cards he needed failed to materialise.
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Granstad with a Grand Stack
In a private battle of the Norwegians on the Table of Death, Andreas Hoivold suffered a major setback when losing 30k plus to Henning Granstad. I have no news of the suits involved but Hoivold raised with 98 suited, called by Granstad. The flop of 972 looked decent for Hoivold. Granstad, sitting there with a pair of 2's, could only agree on the attraction of the flop. A raise, re-raise and re-re-raise later, all the chips were in and Granstad doubled through.
Hoivold was not to be deterred. In the last hand before the final level, another EPT winner, Mads Andersen of Denmark, locked horns with Hoivold in a tentative battle until the board showed a raggy mess of cards. Andersen had been calling Hoivold's small bets and then felt compelled to call a 6,500 bet on the end. Hoivold showed 75 offsuit which fitted well with the 75 on the flop. Andersen mucked with a shake of the head.
Poor Simon Young is camped on this table with all these aggressive Scandinavians and is hanging tight with 15k.
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With 90 minutes of play remaining, Thomas Osmun and Andreas Hoivold are in command on Day 1A of the Warsaw EPT.
Martin Wendt is continuing his slow recovery and is now up to around 16,000. Dave Colclough is still down to the felt, yet is grinding out his small stack very nicely.
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, he was presented with an all-in raise of about 6,000. Jim got busy with the verbals seeking information but was met with a sun-shaded look of indifference. It didn't matter; Jim felt his 
to be good and called. His crestfallen opponent surrendered his 
and walked the plank when the high cards he needed failed to materialise.