Live från EPT Monte Carlo 2007
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15:24 28 mar
2007-03-28 15:24:10
A new EPT record – the tournament has started, only 20 minutes late!
Seven 90 minute levels will be played per day, with nine persons per table and some 15 minute breaks.
The players have started with 15,000 chips each, and the first level has blinds of 25/50.
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15:23 28 mar
2007-03-28 15:23:10
Andreas Høivold . Vinnare ETP Dortmund.
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15:21 28 mar
2007-03-28 15:21:10
Barry ”Robin Hood” Greenstein
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14:42 28 mar
2007-03-28 14:42:31
jag tar tillbaka att det är mörkt i lokalen. Gardinerna drogs bort och in strömmar jättebra ljus in.
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14:40 28 mar
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14:38 28 mar
2007-03-28 14:38:20
Johan Storåkers med AK i första handen.
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14:37 28 mar
2007-03-28 14:37:23
The first prize… well, that and the money.
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14:36 28 mar
2007-03-28 14:36:44
Den vackra bucklan. men något säger mig att cirka 17 miljon kronor som förstapriset nog landar på inte ses som fel det heller.
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14:28 28 mar
2007-03-28 14:28:03
Ett nytt EPT-rekord – turneringen har startat, bara 20 minuter sen! Det kanske låter sarkastiskt, men det är det inte. Med tanke på det enorma deltagarantalet och folks tendenser att komma hit sent är det faktiskt väldigt imponerande.
Det kommer att spela sju nittiominutersperioder per dag, med nio spelare på varje bord och kvartslånga pauser efter varje nivå.
Spelet började med 15 000 marker var, och på den första nivån spelas det med mörkar på 25/50.
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14:12 28 mar
2007-03-28 14:12:49
Weve finally arrived in Monte Carlo, at our four-star hotel. Very luxurious but lacks a working wireless internet connection. No matter, we probably wont be sitting at the hotel a lot anyway.
Despite having lived in Dublin, I have never seen such a rebuilding frenzy as here. The roads during the 45 minutes between the airport in Nice and Monte Carlo were borded by reconstruction signs and holes in the ground. Still, that made more sense than the road to the hotel being blocked when we finally got there. So we had to take another route only ten more minutes, but still only to learn upon arrival that the first road had been unblocked and the new one was closed off instead.
Our taxi driver was very apologetic, but obviously, it wasnt her fault. She kept talking to us in rapid French though, despite our trying phrases such as Sorry, we dont speak French and Pardonnez-moi, je ne parlez pas francaise, or however thats spelt.
In Schiphol, the airport in Amsterdam, we met Andreas Hoivold, Norwegian winner of the EPT event in Dortmund, the German Open, and a generally nice guy, as well as his countryman Espen Saltnes, most famous for his eighth place finish in the WPT Challenge event last year. They were both in a very good mood and assured us theyre here to win, though in Schiphol, they seemed a bit more interested in vodka.
Espen and Andreas laughing, until reminded of the bad results their soccer teams been getting lately.
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