Andy Black chipleader at the EPT Grand Final

gilmour

Going into day 4 with 88 players remaining:

Andy Black (Ireland) -- 513300
Ariel Adda (UK) -- 343100
Antony Lellouche (France) -- 332100
Johnny Lodden (Norway) -- 310900
Simon Johansson (Sweden) -- 302100
Christopher Ulsrud (Norway) -- 286800
Philip Hilm (Denmark) -- 273200
Oscar Blanco Carrasco (Spain) -- 245900
Steve Jelinek (UK) -- 226400
Biri Balazs (Hungary) -- 219200
Chad Brown (USA) -- 212900
Vladimir Troyanovsky (Russia) -- 202100
Marc Karam (Canada) -- 196700
Elie Marciano (France) -- 187100
Christian Neirinck (Belgium) -- 181800
Thomas Bihl (Germany) -- 179800
Jonathan Little (USA) -- 176300
Carlos Mortensen (Spain) -- 174700
Alexander Kim (USA) -- 173600
Pete Giordano (USA) -- 167800
Dean Sanders (UK) -- 166000
David Sonelin (Sweden) -- 165000
Kristian Kjondal (Norway) -- 164000
Nicolas Ragot (France) -- 163700
Jan Veit (Germany) -- 159800
Soren Bakfort (Denmark) -- 157500
Thomas Wahlroos (Finland) -- 154900
Kristof De Smedt (Belgium) -- 154800
Dario Alioto (Italy) -- 149600
Sergey Altbregin (Russia) -- 144600
Ram Vaswani (UK) -- 141900
Ricki Nielsen (Denmark) -- 138400
Chris Bjorin (Sweden) -- 136600
Lars Eidissen (Norway) -- 136200
Halldor Mar Sverrisson (Iceland) -- 135800
Samir Rahal (France) -- 134300
Richard Waters (UK) -- 131200
Peter Christiaan Dalhuijsen (Holland) -- 120600
Lars Bonding (Denmark) -- 119500
Nicholas Goodall (UK) -- 119400
Roi Elmaliah (Israel) -- 118800
Cristinel Dumitru (Romania) -- 117900
Gavin Griffin (USA) -- 111200
Johannes Strassmann (Germany) -- 105700
Fabio Bianchi (Italy) -- 103600
Shane Reihill (Ireland) -- 103100
William Hill (UK) -- 100400
Jesse Steinberg (USA) -- 97400
Richard Herbert (Ireland) -- 95000
Rayan Nathan (Australia) -- 85700
Joe Beevers (UK) -- 82800
Eric Van der Berg (Holland) -- 80800
David Sykes (Canada) -- 80400
Jacob Larsson (Sweden) -- 77000
Fadi Kamar (Lebanon) -- 76800
David Mobbs (UK) -- 76300
Michael Martin (USA) -- 74600
Ernst Hermans (Holland) -- 63800
Staale Egenes (Norway) -- 62200
Josh Prager (USA) -- 60400
David Barraclough (UK) -- 58000
Atanas Gueorguiev (Bulgaria) -- 57500
Ben Callinan (UK) -- 55500
Soren Kongsgaard (Denmark) -- 55500
David Ulliott (UK) -- 54400
Zack Stewart (Israel) -- 54300
David Peters (USA) -- 51900
Sasa Biorac (Germany) -- 51100
Hans Eskilsson (Sweden) -- 51000
Jason Mellross (Australia) -- 50700
Hans Vars (Norway) -- 47600
Patric Martensson (Sweden) -- 47300
Ali Masterman (UK) -- 44300
Herman Zango (Costa Rica) -- 43900
Hans Erlandsson (Sweden) -- 42800
Ouri Aron Cohen (France) -- 42300
Anthony Chatelain (Sweden) -- 36800
Age Spets (Norway) -- 33700
Ross Boatman (UK) -- 32900
Fowzi Baroukh (UK) -- 32400
Xuyen Pham (UK) -- 31900
Daryl Jace (USA) -- 30600
Gunnar Ostebrod (Norway) -- 29200
Maurice Kenter (USA) -- 19400
Mickey Wernick (UK) -- 13700

And today he shares a table with Johnny Lodden, and i wouldnt be surprised if thats the TV table - if it is we will be able to watch it live at about 2pm on www.eptlive.com. Surely he will hold on to one of these big chipleads one of these days?

Anyway good luck Andy

Mellor

gilmour wrote:

if it is we will be able to watch it live at about 2pm on www.eptlive.com.

That says 2pm, central european time, is that not 1pm here. ten mins away

gilmour

yeah it is 1pm our time, but the feed never started on time (at least in dortmund anyway) so expect it to be starting about 2 or even 3. The feed is excellent btw.


*edit - missing from that chipcount list is a blast from the past - Josh Arieh, he has about 300k. Imagine if all the big names reached the final table.

gilmour

webcast is up and running

gilmour

apparently the first tv table lineup includes Carlos Mortensen and Ram Vaswani

Hitman Actual

gilmour wrote:

And today he shares a table with Johnny Lodden, and i wouldnt be surprised if thats the TV table - if it is we will be able to watch it live at about 2pm on www.eptlive.com. Surely he will hold on to one of these big chipleads one of these days?

WP on the link gilmour, gg. Very clear indeed.

G'wan Andy!

Mellor

can anyone get this up?
I keep getting a mediaplayer not working message

Hitman Actual

Working fine on Firefox for me.

http://www.eptlive.com/WebCast/high.html

gilmour

everythings up and running on my end

are you getting that message when you try both the low and high speeds?

Mellor

yeah, both of them, its not even starting.
mellor is deeply disappointed

BobSloane

Yeah workin fine here too on high speed. Thanks for the link gilmour. This will pass a bit of the day

BigCityBanker

excellent quality

BrokenArrows

Just looking at the prize pool and entry fee and the numbers are not adding up

entry fee = 10,000
prizepool = 6,636,400
entrants = 706

should the prize pool not be 7,060,000

Thats a big difference of 423,600

http://www.europeanpokertour.com/EPT3_montecarlo.html

Hawk Eye

BrokenArrows wrote:

Just looking at the prize pool and entry fee and the numbers are not adding up

entry fee = 10,000
prizepool = 6,636,400
entrants = 706

should the prize pool not be 7,060,000

Thats a big difference of 423,600

http://www.europeanpokertour.com/EPT3_montecarlo.html

€9,400 + €600

Please note, in the main event 4% is withheld as entry fee and 2% is withheld for tournament staff; in all other events, 3% is withheld for tournament staff

gilmour

Andy just eliminated Ricky Neilson

Last chipcount before that news had him at 550k, Johnny Lodden has now got 410k

mon Andy

Tar.Aldarion

Anybody else just get a green screen?

ollyk1

still working fine for me on firefox

jimbling

im just getting "media player could not be started"

Davey Devil

That Lee Jones guy who is commentating is painful, he's unlistenable. Talking about the guy who got the bubble: "He had a great time, got to eat some great meals". WTF ??

gilmour

that is one big stack Andy has :eek:

califano

Screen just stays black for me on my wireless laptop connection. On the main pc it works but thats in the other room away from the action. I think i screwed it up when i recently installed media player11 and had to backpeddal back to 10.
Now most streaming video doesnt work. ach shur.

Tar.Aldarion

Anybody recording it?

gilmour

Johnny Loddens out :eek:

he had 410k about an hour ago

gerry87

Barry's pretty angry with william hills play. Is that william hill from william hills bookies?

If its not working try http://tinopolis-PokerStarLive-Eng-500k.wm.llnwd.net/tinopolis_PokerStarLive_Eng_500k it'll open in windows media player, or even better http://tinopolis-PokerStarLive-Ger-500k.wm.llnwd.net/tinopolis_PokerStarLive_Ger_500k in german!

Goodluck2me

gilmour wrote:

Johnny Loddens out :eek:

he had 410k about an hour ago

yeah 55 v JJ for the bulk and then pushing A2 v TT.

RoadSweeper

gerry87 wrote:

Barry's pretty angry with william hills play. Is that william hill from william hills bookies?

no, this william hill is from america according to the commentary!

gilmour

goodluck2me wrote:

yeah 55 v JJ for the bulk and then pushing A2 v TT.

55? christ

gilmour

610k is Andys latest count, still the chipleader by about 150k over Josh Arieh who is 2nd in chips


and once again, like the Aussie Millions, Andy has not been all in once since the beginning of the tournament. Thats pretty damn impressive.

Hawk Eye

What do the Irish call AK?

Duthie mentioned it after Beevers AJ allin call.

AKQJ10

jonny lodden is god, he will take down one of these very soon

Goodluck2me

AKQJ10 wrote:

jonny lodden is god, he will take down one of these very soon

"all your chip peter" - i disagree. he is too much of a loose cannon and received no end of luckt breaks throughout the tournament as per the blonde updates imo. a top class player - but too rash in tournaments.

Killme00

goodluck2me wrote:

"all your chip peter" - i disagree. he is too much of a loose cannon and received no end of luckt breaks throughout the tournament as per the blonde updates imo. a top class player - but too rash in tournaments.

hes great to watch though..you have no idea what he will do

opr

Lodden may look like a loose cannon but i think he is far from it and all his deep finishes and success at cash games online show this.

If you watched him in the william hill thing on Sky he played some amazing poker.

Opr

Goodluck2me

dont get me wrong i know he is an immense talent, but if he learned to slow down a bit during tournaments it would be a big help to his game imo. i also knwo he is one of the best cash players aorund Bad_ip.

gilmour

5.57
I happened up Andy Black, who just made a good call with A9 on a Q97 flop. His opponent moved all-in for 160,000 and Andy called with A9. His opponent held A7 and that was all she wrote. We're down to 50 players and Black must be near the 800,000 chip mark.

5starpool

Has the webcast stopped broadcasting? I was watching it earlier but it doesn't open now, just a black screen??

Edit: Never mind, I see they are on a break.

Ste05

They're on dinner break I think

gilmour

with 42 players left Andy has over a third of the chips in play.

5starpool

Hope he doesn't pull one of his patented stunts.

gilmour

5starpool wrote:

Hope he doesn't pull one of his patented stunts.

thinking the exact same thing, it will be a nervous experience watching him on the webcast (if they move him to the tv table) because his kind of blow ups are best not to be witnessed live in your own home

Lafortezza

lol this is working for me in work.

kincsem

gilmour wrote:

with 42 players left Andy has over a third of the chips in play.

Can he resist the urge to put his chips in play? He must have accumulated them by taking a few risks / good reads.

This will be interesting. It's a bit like his WSOP final table situation.

Goodluck2me

gilmour wrote:

with 42 players left Andy has over a third of the chips in play.

he doesnt have 3.5million! thats rubish. hes not even chip leader!

Vamos

he has no where near 1/3rd of chips in play

gilmour

that was according to Pokerstars Blog. He has 860k.


And yeah come to think of it he has nowhere near a third of chips in play, they started with 15k, Pokerstars blog updaters on crack.

5starpool

There are 7 million odd chips in play aren't there? 10k each to start (I assume) and 700+ runners.

Goodluck2me

5starpool wrote:

There are 7 million odd chips in play aren't there? 10k each to start (I assume) and 700+ runners.

nope 15K to start 706 runner. ave is c225K

nicnicnic

RoadSweeper wrote:

no, this william hill is from america according to the commentary!

william hill the bookie is dead many years he was a black and tan in Ireland early the last century and once commented to legendary Irish horse trainer Vicent O Brien that he should of killed his father before his conception after the trainer pulled off one of his many coups

incidentally i see posts referring to paddy power as if the company is set up by a person with this name. the Company was set up approx 20 years ago by Stewart Kenny (packed up a few years ago and went off to become a buddhist). The figure head that we see in the press called Paddy Power surfaced about eight years ago presumably employed as a figure head because of his name to give the company a public face.

kakak1

nicnicnic wrote:

william hill the bookie is dead many years he was a black and tan in Ireland early the last century and once commented to legendary Irish horse trainer Vicent O Brien that he should of killed his father before his conception after the trainer pulled off one of his many coups

incidentally i see posts referring to paddy power as if the company is set up by a person with this name. the Company was set up approx 20 years ago by Stewart Kenny (packed up a few years ago and went off to become a buddhist). The figure head that we see in the press called Paddy Power surfaced about eight years ago presumably employed as a figure head because of his name to give the company a public face.

are you a fcuking authority on Powers

BigCityBanker

nicnicnic wrote:

william hill the bookie is dead many years he was a black and tan in Ireland early the last century and once commented to legendary Irish horse trainer Vicent O Brien that he should of killed his father before his conception after the trainer pulled off one of his many coups

incidentally i see posts referring to paddy power as if the company is set up by a person with this name. the Company was set up approx 20 years ago by Stewart Kenny (packed up a few years ago and went off to become a buddhist). The figure head that we see in the press called Paddy Power surfaced about eight years ago presumably employed as a figure head because of his name to give the company a public face.

I think you will find that PP was set up from a consortium of 3 bookies, one of which which was Stuart Kenny, others being John Corcoran and David Power.

PR figurehead Paddy Power is a son of David Power.

Goodluck2me

BigCityBanker wrote:

I think you will find that PP was set up from a consortium of 3 bookies, one of which which was Stuart Kenny, others being John Corcoran and David Power.

PR figurehead Paddy Power is a son of David Power.

so now you know.