Barcelona

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Not a bad start for me in Barcelona,
I've been drawn against against one of the Betfair qualifiers - his name escapes me at the moment. At least its not a known player. Will be playing on Wednesday at 5:30 local time which is the very last slot for the first round.

I haven't got much more info - I think the full list will be published some time tomorrow.

NickyOD

Good luck. Take it down.

The home page is here but I don't know if they'll be posting the first round results on it.

http://www.worldheadsuppoker.com/headsup/index.php

roryc

good luck

Doc Farrell

good luck kiddo

Lafortezza

What kind of preparation did you put in for this Mark?

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lafortezza wrote:

What kind of preparation did you put in for this Mark?

Played a lot of heads up games over the last month online - did quite well - generally for 50 or 100 Euro.
This tournament is a very different beast, though, with some games lasting up to 3 hours,

Still I don't really feel all that well prepared for it - I'll just give it my best shot.

One problem that I have is that I was working in the USA for the last while so didn't get much practice in.

DeVore

Whens your first game? Any live (or semi live) coverage?

DeV.

Hitman Actual

Best of luck, Mark... and isn't Barcelona where David O'Callaghan won the 'Open' last year? A good omen, hopefully.

Waylander

DeVore wrote:

Whens your first game? Any live (or semi live) coverage?

DeV.

The whole event was on one of the sky channels (Challenge, I think ) last year, but I think it was on well after the event was over.

BigDragon

Best of Luck Mark.

Maybe being under prepared is just as good as being over prepared (ie burnt out!) .... if you know what I mean.

ionapaul

Good luck Mark! Watch out for pickpockets and avoid the seafood paella at all costs

Dub13

Best of Luck

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BRACKET 1:
Angel Blanco v Jonathan Sullivan
Ivo Donev v SAT1
Pascal Perrault v Rumit Somaya
Roy Brindley v Luke Smith
Carlos Massana v Xuyen Pham
Dave Ulliot v Alex Leviev
Boudet Patrice v Stephen Pearce
Carlo Citrone v Daniel Larsson
Luca Pagano v Albert Ashanki
Charles Mailhot v Simon Trumper
Martin Cedercrantz v Jean Postmus
Ross Boatman v Ram Vaswani
Peter Gunnardon v Frank Blumlein
Paul Hersleth v Tom Brady
John Kabbaj v Marco Monica
Mickey Wernick V Michael Hewitt

BRACKET 2:
Mark Bannin v Dave Colclough
Paul Zimber v Noah Boeken
Jose Forcada v Bruce Atkinson
Manuel Durin v Makus Lehman
Raul Paez Corral v Ben Battle
Alexander Kravchenko v Vladimir Troyanovsky
Willie Tan v John Huckle
Phil Shaw v Barny Boatman
Woody Deck v Sargon Ruya
Mark Bartlog v Richardo Gryco
Patrice Bouget v Pouya Majd
Colin Gerrard v Jamie Sharrat
Nicu Simcelescu v Manuel Garcia
Dan Simcelescu v Dave Gardner
Mathias Wilkens v Henry Bull
Andreas Hagan v Peter Troejborg

BRACKET3:
Rob Hollink v Derek Baxter
David Slowik v Daniel Steine
David Leigh v DaMatrix
Rino Mathis v Jeff Kimbler
Paul King v Hans Eskilsson
Gary Collins v Ben Grundy
Chris Sokrati v Michael Keiner
Sean MacMahon v Jac Arama
Christian Engblom v Peter Eichardt
Isabelle Mercier v Steve Vladar
Brian Benedon v Frej Rutenskold
Howard Plant v Bengt Sonnert
Santiago Terrazas v Guosen Chen
Padraig Parkinson v Joe Beevers
John Falconer v Kevin O'Connel
Anthony Lelouche v Romain Feriolo

BRACKET4:
Bruno Fitoussi v Santiago Planas
Jin Cailin v Erik Forsberg
Cui Guogun v John Cunningham
Gary Chatterton v Ali Osman
Peter Abela v Rosa Massimiliano
Julian Thew v Per-Werner Svenson
Jatinder Singh v Paul Gamhart
Robert Binelli v David Mahmood
Jim Goodwin v Mark MacMahon
Zhang Luzhe v Chris Evans
Bill Edler v Michael Thuretz
Paul Jackson v Maurice O'Connor
Lothar Landauer v Mattias Backstrom
Simon Nowab v Khayam Ezzat
Mark Foster v Kate Szeremeta
Rory Liffey v Andrew Kinsmann

DeVore

oh man... thats some lineup!!

Ones that particularly caught my eye were:

Padraig Parkinson v Joe Beevers

John Falconer v Kevin O'Connell (good mates!)

Ross Boatman v Ram Vaswani (two mobsters!)

Every second name there is a well known player or pro, good luck Mark, thats a tough field!

DeV

NickyOD

So which Mark is Mark?

ionapaul

The one who's playing 'Diamond' Jim Goodwin*




*made up the Diamond part, though that would be a pretty cool name...right?

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Bracket 4
Jim Goodwin v Mark MacMahon

BTW Sean is no relation - he just happens to be another MacMahon who qualified on Paddy Power. He has only been playing poker for about a month and has been drawn against Jac Arama! What a good draw that is as it should be a very even match.

NickyOD

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Bracket 4
Jim Goodwin v Mark MacMahon

BTW Sean is no relation - he just happens to be another MacMahon who qualified on Paddy Power. He has only been playing poker for about a month and has been drawn against Jac Arama! What a good draw that is as it should be a very even match.

Oh man Jac Arama, that's nasty. You can never know what that jamming station has. "Do you have a pair?" "No 8 high"

roryc

how much does it cost to enter? (if you didnt win a ticket)

what would the prize fund be like?

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roryc wrote:

how much does it cost to enter? (if you didnt win a ticket)

what would the prize fund be like?

2k+reg entry

128 players limited = 256k prize fund

100k first prize.

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PPP-Pit Boss

I think leslie neilson said it best ala airoplane...
"good luck, we're all counting on you..."
"good luck... we're all counting on you..."

..... "good luck. We're all counting on you..."

;0)
Mark keep us informed please! PPP's star ! :0)

dropsy

Just spoke to Mark - he won his first round game today...nice work Mark. I'm sure you'll post details as soon as you can.

ionapaul

Congrats Mark - keep it up

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ionapaul wrote:

Congrats Mark - keep it up

Yeah delighted to be through.
The game went very well.
I played super agressive and my opponent was quite passive, The old Mike Caro book worked a charm as there were a couple of times when I read my opponent for strength and folded the likes of AJ on the flop - i think he hit a set of kings but I was having none of it.
At the break I had a 6500 to 3500 advantage..
The hand of the game was when I callled a raise with Q10 OS.
We both checked and on the turn I had an open-ender of sorts..
The board was AJ97 - any K 0r eight would give me a str8.
My opponent who was extemely tight bet 400. i decided to re-raise to 800 as I had managed to get him off some dangerous boards previously and assumed he would fold. He called and I hit a K on the river to get the nut str8,.
With the nuts i was first to act and raised to 1400 after some hesitation(I like overbetting with the nuts)

He called with his 2 pair and and I had a 9k to 1k advantage. Soon afterwards he went all-in with QJ and i callled with A7 and it stood up.
Had a great night tonight - still very drunk after drinking with timfoils brother Graham Thew, MilkyBarKid and Richard Gryko - Loving barceona for now - hopefully thursdays game against Luzhe Zhang (who the f* is that?) will go well.

Will keep you all updated, Mark.

Fandango

Well done! Great to hear and hopefully you can go all the way!

Krusty_Clown

Bst of luck in the next game Mark..
Luzhe Zhang - ranked 119,750 in the world.. Beat him and you'll move up to 119,749th.

NickyOD

Fandango wrote:

Well done! Great to hear and hopefully you can go all the way!

He's a limit specialist, which most likely means he is totally fearless and aggressive. He won't be anything like that tight ass Goodwin.

Best of Luck Mark. Enjoy.

Shortstack

Well done Mark, you must be drunk. Graham is Timfoil! His brother is Julian!
If you end up playing him then watch out he is a nightmare...

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LOL-yes Mike, I was drunk when I wrote that post! - It was Julian, of course!

TimFoil

thanks for clearing that up ss, i was starting to revel in the kudos.... if you do end up drawing Julian my advice is to get him giggling - once he starts he cant stop, his game goes to pot, blatent reads all over the place - what a mess. in the meantime well done, looking forward to your anhialation of the next carbon blob...

ionapaul

Do the 2 round matches take place today?