European Championship 2015 - Day Two

[Des]

The payouts are:

1 - £4,220 + Gold Medal + £110 WCOAP Main Event Entry
2 - £2,750 + Silver Medal
3 - £1,760 + Bronze Medal
4 - £1,190
5 - £820
6 - £590
7 - £460
8 - £400
9 - £350
10 - £310
11 - £290
12 - £250
13 - £250
14 - £230
15 - £230

[Luthee13]

And the dream is over for Bill Sheppard!

After his double up earlier on, he appeared to be pretty card dead and found himself with 30k with blinds at 1500/3000.

Following a small raise, Bill pushes the last of his chips over the line with   and Craig Dawson looks him up with  

The board comes   and we lose Bill in 20th place.

[Des]

A few hands from table 1.

Brambats
Young
Kingan
Bradbury
Taylor
Dennehy
Parker

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38 minutes left of level at 1500 / 3000 with a 400 ante.

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Button on Young
walk to Bradbury in big blind, who shows Ace King suited.

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Button on Kingan
Bradbury raises to
Dennehy reraises to 30k
Kingan all in.
All fold.

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Bradbuy with button
Brambats all in relatively short for around 45k.
All fold

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button on Taylor
Dennehy and Parker check down a dry looking board, with Dennehy taking the pot with a small raise on the river.
k 2 9 9 j

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button with Dennehy.
Kingan takes the pot with a raise.

[Luthee13]

Craig does it again!

Next hand, Ian Lee shoves with   and Craig, again with   , calls and holds.

Down to 18 players.

[Des]

Parker"s button.

Taylor reraises Parker and Brambats out of the pot.

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Button on shortstack Brambats

Taylor raises for 6.5k
Brambats pushes all in for 40k.
Bradbury reraises all in.
Taylor gets out of the way.

Showdown.

Bradbury  
Brambats    

An   on the board doubles Brambats once more.

[Luthee13]

So, play is currently paused while we do a redraw for seats as we are down to two tables of 9.

[Luthee13]

Caught the end of a hand with Steve Roderick.

Bet 18k on the river, got called and scooped the pot with a Queen high flush.

Currently on approximately 250k.

[Soroban]

I didn"t see Dan Dennehy"s name last night as remaining, so he"s still in?

[Luthee13]

Steve Bradbury doubles up to approximately 70k through Martin Norbury with Steve"s   holding up against Martin"s  

[Des]

Some hands from table 2.

11m left in the level - 1500 / 3000 (400)

Dennehy
Parker
Brown
Zammit
Kingan
Andersen
Snell
Brabants
Lonsdale

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Button Kingan
Zammit raises 8k and takes the blinds.

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Button Andersen
Dennehy raises 6k and takes the blinds.

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Button Snell
Zammit raises 8.5
Called by Snell
Brabants moves all in for 75k
Fold
Fold
Peteris Brabants rakes a sizeable pot.

[Des]

Button Brabants
Snell raises to 7.5k
Brabants calls
Lonsdale pushes all in.
Snell folds
brabants dwells and asks for a count
then CALLS.

Lonsdale turns over a pair of sixes
Brabants crucially has a pair of nines.

The board doesn"t help Lonsdale and we lose him in 18th position.



Josh Lonsdale

[Luthee13]

Craig Dawson claims another victim in Paul Taylor

All in on the turn on a   board.

Paul shows  
Craig has  

and the   on the river changes nothing and we are down to 17.

[Des]

Button Parker.
He takes the pot with a raise, showing an Ace.

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Approx chipcounts as the blinds go up to 2k / 4k (500)

FEATURE TABLE

Craig Dawson - 375K
Carl Fitzpatrick - 20K
Brian Yates - 75K
Steve Roderick - 225K
Andrew Young - 160K
Steve Timmis - 60K
Paul Taylor - 140K
Martin Norbury - 37K
Steven Bradbury - 70K

TABLE TWO

Dan Dennehy - 80k
Wayne Parker - 90k
Kayode Brown - 190k
Harry Zammit - 100k
Andy Kingan - 40k
Jakub Andersen - 190k
Sean Snell - 60k
Peteris Brabants - 175k

[Luthee13]

Still hand for hand

Carl Fitzpatrick shoved all in pre flop for approximately 16k and was called by Brian Yates.

held up against   and Carl doubles up.

[Des]

Table 2 hands continued.

Button Snell
Snell raises to 9k
Brabants calls

Flop 8 4 K

Brabants raises 15k
Snell folds.

Brabants pull in another pot and from being the shortstack under an hour ago, he now finds himself with considerable momentum and chips.