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EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008
Ladies and Gentlemen, let's shuffle up and deal!

Day 1A of the Main Event started about half an hour ago and Team PokerStrategy.com member Allanon is playing today.

This is the official live ticker thread which we will use to keep you up to date about anything that goes on here at the Gran Casino in Barcelona.

As I'm typing this all the lights in the press room went down and about 50 reporters are covered in complete darkness.

"That's not gonna work"
"It is quite cozy though"

I already love the atmosphere here. Some lights would be nice though.


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tcs35
Joined: 31.01.2009

Yoghi is also playing as far as I know


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

Originally posted by TobyCS
Yoghi is also playing as far as I know

He had some trouble getting cash to register. He has a lot of Hong Kong dollars with him, because he almost came directly from Macau. Unfortunately they won't exchange his Hong Kong dollars here so he's trying to find someone who carries a lot of cash. He played a satellite yesterday as well and I think he got pretty far but he didn't win a ticket.

First guy already busted btw, second hand, aces versus kings and if I heard correctly, kings won. That's just nasty!


any updates?


RobbieV
Joined: 15.09.2008

Some pictures from the event can be found here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/teampokerstrategy/


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

Allanon is up to 40k (starting stack 30k). Break at 3PM.


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

Fabstinho is also playing today, he's about the same as he started with.

Holger Kanisch aka Black Member Tonding is sitting one seat on the left of him. Poor Fabi :).
Let's hope they will still be friends after today.


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

210 players started playing at day 1A.

Pokerstars Pro's who are playing include Sebastian Ruthenberg, Noah Boeken, Jason Mercier, William Thorson, Johnny Lodden and Katja Thater.

I know how most of these people look but I walked past the tables like 3 times and I almost didn't find any of the pro's. Turns out finding familiar faces is a lot more challenging then I thought.

We do have some photographs already though, they're being uploaded right now.


RobbieV
Joined: 15.09.2008

UTG opens, some random guy shoves and the big blind folded sneakily. UTG is waiting for like four minutes, because he thought the big blind was still tanking. Then clock was called on him, but he didn't hear it. Then the dealer says you have ten seconds and he goes like what?! Well I call cuz I have aces.

They held btw


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

The press room where we're doing the reporting

Team PokerStrategy.com player Allanon wearing his headphones

Some guy at Allanon's table. I thought he looked funny.

Massage girls

Malte "Bagger0405" Strothmann

Sebastian Ruthenberg

Fabian "Fabstinho" Quoss with sunglasses and Holger "Tonding" Kanisch in the background.

Florian "Morgoth" Langmann

RobbieV
Joined: 15.09.2008

I hope it will become more interesting as the day advances.

Starting stack was 30k and blind level 50/100. So everyone started with 300bb, which is quite deep for a tournament. The blind levels go up each hour, but they don't double. They went from 50/100 to 75/150 to 100/200. So even now everyone would have 150bb. That makes play a bit slow, as there are very few exciting all-ins


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

Just saw Allanon pick up a small pot. Button opened and Allanon 3bet on the Small Blind. The guy went into trashtalking mode telling Allanon how impressive his reraise was. He openfolded KJo claiming he was the tightest player in the world. Allanon did not show...


Sei pronto per le interviste?
Hai già visto Vanessa?

mitico RobbieV :f_biggrin:


RobbieV
Joined: 15.09.2008

Not yet ;) I hope she's coming tomorrow!


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

She is coming tomorrow but I haven't told Robbie yet because I want him to get some sleep tonight.


sutty85
Joined: 02.12.2008

PSMarco... aspetto le tue foto e commenti in italiano questa sera

GL to all PS players and... Goooo genio...

I hope i can read here something of Sergio Castelluccio!


fitz1
Joined: 14.04.2008

u gonna follow the sideevents aswell elias?


Ok first i wanna say thanks very much Elias and Robbie for providing us with this coverage.

Second i wish the team the best of luck! PokerStrategy players final table imo _cool:

Regards,

-Jack


EliasVeritas
Joined: 29.05.2008

Originally posted by sutty85
I hope i can read here something of Sergio Castelluccio!

He's not playing today, if he's playing tomorrow I'll try to track him down.

Pictures of some girls. Could be better right?
I'm really looking forward to tomorrow though. Vanessa Roussou, Sandra Naujoks, and brand new Team PokerStars pro Fatima Moreira De Melo.

That's her! Looks nice doesn't she? I prefer Sandra though. What do you guys think?

Ok one last picture:


Someone at Allanon's table


ok so the thread just got a little bit better... ^^

:f_love: :f_love: