 Live updates from day 2, level 15 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Rick Dacey, Marc Convey and Howard Swains.
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Blinds: 2,000-4,000 (400 ante)
9.05pm:...
 Live updates from day 2, level 15 of EPT Barcelona brought to you by Stephen Bartley, Rick Dacey, Marc Convey and Howard Swains.
Click refresh to see the latest updates below, while the latest selected chip counts can be found by clicking right here.
Blinds: 2,000-4,000 (400 ante)
9.05pm: Bubble boy named!
In the combined 9,552 poker tournaments covered by the PokerStars blog team, we very nearly just set an unfortunate benchmark. The player bursting the bubble vanished in a flash and no one even saw him go, much less knew his name. This, however, was not good enough for a spectacular stickler for accurisie lyke me and we had to find him. I'm happy to report that with some help from our Portuguese friends, we now know: Andre Santos was the last man out without earning any money.
9pm: Bubble burst
In keeping with one of the speediest days on the EPT, the bubble burst in spectacularly quick fashion. There were two candidates: the Team PokerStars Pro Lex Veldhuis went out with A-J against A-K and then on a neighbouring table another unfortunate's A-3 sent him spinning out. He vanished double quick, but we're tracking down his name now.
A full wrap is imminent. Matt Lapossie, a PokerStars qualifier from Canada, is the chip leader.
8.35pm: Nuijten staying alive
Julien Nuijten just doubled up -- handy at this time of the day, with only four players needing to be knocked out to reach the money. Matt Woodward raised to 27,000 from the button, attacking Nuijten's short stack in the big blind. Nuijten shoved it in -- it was about 80,000 in total -- and after a while to figure out the odds, Woodward decided he was priced in for the call. He had [kc][5d] and Nuijten was ahead with [ah][qh]. Both players remained impassive on the flop of [5s][4c][7h], even though that five could have spelled doom for the Dutchman. But the turn was [qd] to bring him back to life and the [6s] earned Nuijten the double up.
8.30pm: They'll be no bonding between these two
A 390,000 pot just went down between Lex Veldhuis and Lars Bonding with the latter coming out on top. We missed the exact action but the rest and the majority of the chips went in on the turn with the board reading [qc][5s][kc][jh]. Veldhuis tabled [5h][5d] for a set and Bonding tables [qh][td] for a pair and open-ended straight draw. All eyes fixed in one place as the river came [9h]! The straight came in for the Dane but a bitter blow for the Team PokerStars Pro Netherlands player who has 81,000 after the defeat. Bonding meanwhile is on 390,000. --MC
8.21pm: The dominators
In case you can't get through to that chip count page, these are the top dudes:
Tobias Reinkemeier, Germany, 530,000
Marc Goodwin, UK, 490,000
Matt Lapossie, Canada, PokerStars qualifier, 490,000
Carter Philips, USA, PokerStars qualifier, 450,000
Bertrand Grospellier, France, Team PokerStars Pro, 415,000
8.20pm: Black chips removed
The black chips, worth 100, have been taken out of circulation. Which means all the people you can see on the chip count page won't have to count them. Where's the chip count page?
CLICK HERE FOR CHIP COUNTS
8.15pm: Six before the money
We're into the final scheduled level of the day and 78 players remain. Six more need to get themselves into a funk before the rest can start whooping. There are some mighty players with some mighty stacks, including this man, who could turn out to be pretty good at this game if he worked hard:
Bertrand "ElkY"
Posted originally: 2009-09-07 13:25:21
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