European Poker Tour, Dublin - Day One 'B'
Day 1 B of the Poker Stars European Poker Tour Dublin featured a stronger field than the previous day. Saddling up for play on day two were Dave 'Devilfish' Ulliott, London EPT winner Vicky Coren, Marcel Luske, Ram Vaswani, Noah Boeken, Greg Raymer, Harry Demetriou, Juha Helppi, Tony G, Luca Pagano, Surinder Sunar, and Dave Colclough, among many others. The day began with 208 players, a few more than began day one 'A'.
The fact that there were more starters might explain why we had 60 survivors that are going to play the Day 2 versus the 49 from Day 1 A. But, the big names were dropping like flies as the action started fast and furious.
One by one, the top players filed out the big door. Some couldn't stay away for long, and came back and played cash games. One of the most interesting cash game tables was the one in which Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker were playing for pretty big stakes. Raymer won a €10,000 plus pot on one hand, with around ten players witnessing his performance.
Let's go through some of the more notable hands of Day 1 B:
Simon Trumper just called preflop, and both blinds came along with him. The flop shows 5s-6s-Qs. The blinds check and Simon bets 200, with only the BB calling him. Turn is the 8s. Simon bets 300, gets a call, and the last community card was the 2s. The BB starts laughing about the flush on the table, but Simon didn't find that funny, and bets 4,000 at the pot. The bet quieted his opponent quickly, and he put his hands on his chin to contemplate his action. Suddenly, Simon trumpets up, and says: "I don't have the Ace of spades as you know". The BB calls, and shows the King of spades. Simon proudly flips over the 7s-4s, for a straight flush.
Iwan Jones sends Vicky Coren home when his 6d-7d makes a straight on the flop 8s-9d-10s. Vicky shows American Airlines, but as we all know, the airline industry is hurting, as were Vicky's Aces. The board provides Vicky no-help, and she leaves the table off into the night.…But not for long, as I saw her playing 2-5 NL Hold'em later in the evening.
Greg Raymer's exit came when he pushed his last few chips in the middle of the table with A-10 against his opponent's A-Q. 5 blank cards on the table, and Raymer would have to go find another game.
Markus Golser sends former boy band star Brian McFadden out of the tournament when his jack high straight beat McFadden's pocket Kings.
Tony G made a straight when his 5s-7h found 6h-2d-4h-8c-kh against his opponent's 4d-5c, sending his opponent home.
Most of the name players bit the dust during their session on day two 'B'. A couple of the notable survivors were Marcel Luske, Luca Pagano, and Noah Boeken.
With 109 players remaining, and needing to get down to the final table today, Day 2 promises to be a long day. Chip counts, and the tournament payout structure are below. See everyone tomorrow.
Chip Counts:
Jonas Helness 117400
William Thorsson 106700
Marc Goodwin 98200
Kevin Vreeswijk 83900
Paul Testud 77100
Roy Brindley 71600
Roland De Wolfe 70700
Stuart Fox 69800
Conor Doyle 69600
Andy Black 69000
Joakim Hammar 66500
Hans Eskilsson 64600
Simon Ehne 61700
David Clayton 61100
Adebayo Odetoyinbo 58900
Kerry-James Kerrigan 57500
Andreas Hagen 56100
Ara Melikian 54800
Karin Lundgren 54700
Nick Slade 52600
Azad Pirooti 50100
Jeffrey Garza 50000
Luca Pagano 49300
Fergal Mckeever 49200
Steffen Kongelt 47500
Peter Gould 47200
Eoin Olin 47100
Philip Peters 46700
Patric Bueno 46500
Paddy Mccloskey 45800
Johnny Lodden 44900
Ravi Udayakumar 44600
Neil Channing 43600
Ramzi Jelassi 43100
Tore Lagerborg 42200
Maximilianos Trigas 41800
Walter Alecci 41000
Christoffer Stahle 40900
Gavin Simms 39700
Katja Thater 39500
Rune Nikolaisen 38000
James Reid 37200
Martin Wendt 37000
Rob Young 36700
David Pomroy 36400
Willie Tann 36400
Jimmy Dahlquist 35700
Jonathan Lewis 35100
Rob Hoopman 34000
Pat O'Callaghan 33000
David Murray 32800
Jeppe Juhl 32700
Niklas Walgren 32000
Marc Friedmann 31800
Patrick White 31800
Magnus Jakobsson 31500
Nadir Benkahla 29700
Vinny Mcnamee 29100
Reyaaz Mulla 29100
Nick Gibson 29000
Nichlas Saarisilta 28400
Kambiz Kashi 28200
Ches Denison 27500
Simon Nowab 26800
Jonathon Kreisner 26300
Anders Berg 25800
Anders Losvik 25600
Ray Coburn 25400
David Barnes 25200
Andreas Vilson 24700
Sasha Rosewood 24400
Marcel Baran 24200
Marcel Luske 24000
Stuart Rutter 24000
George Mckeever 23800
Roland Xavier 22700
Oliver Bosch 22400
Gerald Lemke 22300
Robert Taylor 22200
Finnur Hrafnsson 22000
Michael Rabenseifner 21600
Michael O'Sullivan 21400
Piero Compagnoni 21000
Thomas Fougeron 20800
Daniel Ryan 19400
Daniel Wadman 19300
Jon Priston 19100
David Tavernier 18600
Roman Makowski 16500
Adrian Walshe 16500
Christopher Swanstrom 16000
Sean Donaldson 15100
David O'Callaghan 14700
Robert Binelli 13200
Julian Grosjean 13200
Ian Mctavish 12800
Age Spets 12800
Christoffer Sonesson 12500
roi Elmaliah 12000
Padraig Parkinson 12000
Markus Deijfen 11100
Noah Boeken 10800
David Atrubin 9800
George Geary 8700
Ghite Anderson 8400
Thomas Heining 8200
Johan Storakers 7600
John Gough 6600
Pascal Perrault 5300
All this players will be fighting for a total of €1,847,750 with the following prize payouts (all payouts in Euros):
Payouts
1 554,300
2 314,120
3 184,780
4 138,580
5 112,710
6 88,690
7 70,210
8 51,740
9 31,410
10 31,410
11 25,870
12 25,870
13 20,330
14 20,330
15 14,780
16 14,780
17 11,090
18 11,090
19 11,090
20 11,090
21 11,090
22 11,090
23 11,090
24 11,090
25 7,390
26 7,390
27 7,390
28 7,390
29 7,390
30 7,390
31 7,390
32 7,390
