EPT Grand Final Monte Carlo

HighFinance

The latest from the Irish contingent:

Michael Trimby's Trips Terror

Northern Irish man Michael Trimby who final tabled a World Series of Poker tournament last year was spotted at the rail looking extraordinarily glum. A few expletives later we get to the bottom of the story.

"I ran into trips four hands in a row," he groaned. "Absolutely unbelievable. The first time i had A-K on a K-Q-4 flop and the guy had queens. The very next hand i got A-K again and the flop was K-J-6 and the guy had jacks. Then about 10 minutes later, blind on blind, with 33 Vs 66 and the flop was 10-6-3 then the hand that did me was trip quees. Its hard to believe except is...." he trailed off, shaking his head.

Some other chip counts:

Thomas Fougeron 31,400
Barry Greenstein 6,850
Peter Gould 12,400
Josh Gould 31,500
Andreas Krause 4,750
Jeff Lisandro 6,525
Rolf Slotboom 14,400

Also Peter Roche is going strong. Here's a post from earlier:

Peter Roche from Dublin is no stranger to going deep in tournaments having made both a World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker final table as well as finishing 18th at the PokerStars.com EPT San Remo tournament recently.

Primarily a cash game player, Roche was moaning before the start of the tournament about the long days ahead. “I hate these things,” he said with a half smile. “You have to get massages,” he noted, referring to the obvious back pain he suffers during the long sessions.

At the second break he reported losing a large pot which would have left him with over 40,000 in chips. His opponent “player the hand really badly out of position” but managed to out-flush Roche on the river with AK to Roche’s made Queen-high flush.

The Irishman was philosophical though. “I got lucky earlier,” he said with a shrug of his shoulders. With 22,000 in chips he’s not doing to badly still.

Englishman John Kabbaj was rather nonplussed about his progress, or lack of it. While he was just below average with 16,000 in chips he confided he’d had a late night due to being unable to sleep after watching the golf on TV. He looked fresh enough though and having cashed three times previously in EPTs including a final table in Barcelona, he’s a good bet to last the distance today.

Check out the action at cardplayer.com as i'll try to post where possible on the progress of the Irish.

Hoki

Marcel Luske must be multi tabling

Stephan Kjerstad 100K
Johnny Lodden 90K
Shaun Deeb 80k
Sorel Mizzi 65K
Asa Smith 57K
Peter Roche 53K
Maxime Villemure 52K
Marcel Luske 48k
Mel Judah 48K
Andreas Torbergsen 47k
Nicolas Levi 42k
Christoffer Ståhle 42k
Anthony Chatelain 40k
Thomas Fougeron 40K
Jason Mercier 38K
Thomas Wahlroos 38K
Josh Gould 35,550
Thierry van den Berg 35k
Freddy Deeb 35K
Jan Heitman 33K
Trond Erik Eidsvig 32k
Anna Wroblewski 30K
Carl Olson 30K
Bill Edler 28K
Gino Alacqua 27K
Jan Olav Sjåvik 26k
Marcel Luske 25K
Ryan Daut 22K
Andreas Sarling 22k
Jan Heitman 18k
Josh Arieh 16K
Patrik Antonius 15K
Ted Lawson 14K
Thomas Brolin 12k
Tobias Persson 12k
Martin Wendt 11k
Eli Elezra 10K
Andreas Hagen 9k
Steve Stolzman 9K
Chris Björin 9k

bohsman

Hope Rochey does well. Hows dagunman getting on? Cant see his name in the list.

HighFinance

Shane Reihill in top 10 and Peter Roche just out side of it.

Just poker to Paul Leckey on the way into the venue.

Fingers crossed for the guys today.

b.

Requiem4adream

Goooooooooooo Stevie TID m8

Stephen Devlin 27100

gl to all the other irish still in

Ace2007

bohsman wrote: »

Hope Rochey does well. Hows dagunman getting on? Cant see his name in the list.

He was doin well in the SE last nite i think

kpnuts

Ace2007 wrote: »

He was doin well in the SE last nite i think

Probably shooting over to Monte Carlo this morning by helicopter then.