It is time for day 2, and as you know we have 3 players who went through from yesterday, all of them with alright stacks. We want to give you readers that will follow our heros today some more action by giving you all an freeroll.

It is another $250 freeroll, without any requirements (except reading the blog). It starts again at 19:15 CET and the name is:
blogs.redkings.com FR

You will also need a password to join the freeroll, and here it is:
monaco

Don’t miss out on todays action in the blog, if you follow it really closely you might get a nice surprise!

Todays players:
1. Benjamin Schaub, 31.100
2. Thomas Erichsen, 21.100
3. Ivo Donev, 16.000

Go RedKings!

We had 11 RedKings players starting the day, we got 3 of them through to the second day. Ivo Donev goes as usual to the second day, Benjamin Schaub will make his first day 2 on the EPT circuit tomorrow and so will also the qualifier Thomas Erichsen!

About 135 players went through to the second day from day 1b (have not been confirmed yet) which means that we will have about 250 players starting tomorrow at 14:00 CET.

1. Benjamin Schaub, 31.100
2. Thomas Erichsen, 21.100
3. Ivo Donev, 16.000

Tomorrow there will be a new freeroll at the same time as today, 19:15 CET. The password you will find here when the tournament continues tomorrow at 14:00 CET.

Tomorrow is going to be a very interesting days and we will know if any RedKings players manage to get into the money! See you all tomorrow!

Thomas Erichsen got dealt two aces in the perfect time, that time is when a opponent has two kings. Of course they went all-in pre-flop and Mr. Erichsen had a big chance of doubling his stack up. That was also what he did, now he has about 23.000 in chips.

Only 10 minutes left of day 1b, and we are down to 140 players.

Benjamin Schaub, 37.000
Ivo Donev, 16.000
Thomas Erichsen, 23.000

Ivo has been shorstacked all day long, but now in the end things starts to happen. He got all his chips in on a Q high flop, with AQ, his opponent called and showed KQ which means that Ivo is in a big lead for the turn and flop. No kings shows, and Ivo doubles up to 17.000!

Only 30 minutes left of day 1b, and right now we have 160 players still in today, everybody with a goal to join the 115 who went thorugh from day 1a.

Benjamin Schaub, 40.000
Ivo Donev, 17.000
Thomas Erichsen, 13.000

Bejamin Schaub is going very good here in Dortmund, he just won a big pot when he after a while of thinking called with JJ against a player that moved all-in for 8.000, and he was happy with this call when his female opponent showed 1010. Nothing weird on the board gives “Benni” the pot and a total chip stack of 42.000!

Only one hour left too play for today, and still three RedKings players in.

Benjamin Schaub, 42.000
Thomas Erichsen, 13.000
Ivo Donev, 5.000

We are right now on level 7 out of 8 levels today. 180 of the 360 starting players are still in the tournament. The average is about 20.000.

And this is how our players is doing:
Ivo Donev, 10.000
Thomas Erichsen, 14.000
Benjamin Schaub, 33.000

Only german speaking players left, and we really hope they can do good on home-soil!

This is the worst blog post I have written in the Team RedKings official blogs history. If you want to become depressed, read this:

Jonas “Molle” Molander who just got lucky with the flopped flush had AJ on the flop AQJ, all the chips went in, and his opponent showed the nuts (best possible hand) K10 for the straight. A or J needed for full house, but no luck this time. Molle out.

This is not enough just two minutes after this Toni gets his best hand of the day, two Queens. All his 5.000 goes in to the pot pre-flop and gets called by two kings. No help for Toni on flop, turn or river. Toni out.

Enrico Moldenbauer had J8 on a 8 high flop, this made him to put all his 5.000 chips in the pot. His opponent calls with Q8, and wins on the kicker. Enrico out.

I tried to keep those bad news as short as possible, and I am truly sorry if I broke your hearts. That’s why I am going to give you something good on your brains instead. Our German Benjamin Schaub is still in with a very nice stack of 32.000. Then of course Ivo Donev is hanging in there with about 4.000, and so is Thomas Erichsen with 8.000.

It is time that the luck turns for Team RedKings now, good luck to the three Kings that still is in!

Jonas “Molle” Molander has been a bit below the starting stack all day, he found a hand, not a very good one but he played it. It was K3 suited he pushed all his 4.500 into the pot with, unfortunately as usual the player against the RedKings player finds AA. Molle made himself ready to join the other RedKings players in the bar, but when the flop came out with 3 diamonds and a big “ohhhhh” went through the crowd, Molle deicided to sit down again. This because he had the K3 in diamonds and flopped the flush. Now he is up to 9.000.

I am sure that all the players are happy with the pause entertainment that just starts in the middle of the tournament with half naked girls on the stage. It doesn’t bother me, but I am sure it bothers the male players who tries not to concentrate on ladies. I think this is hard when half naked girls comes up and dances on the stage. Of course I will give you readers a little bit of this, check out the picture.

Now there is 240 players left and the average stack is about 16.000.

Chip counts:
Toni Ojala, 9.000
Jonas “Molle” Molander, 9.000
Enrico Moldenbauer, 5.000
Ivo Donev, 8.500
Benjamin Schaub, 16.000
Thomas Erichsen, 14.000

Ramzi had 19.300 when he got dealt AK suited, a hand that Ramzi likes. Before it was Ramzis turn to play, there was a raiser, Ramzi re-raised this player to 2.300, his opponent decides to make a 3-bet and raise again to 6.800. This doesn’t scare Ramzi as he shovels his whole stack into the middle. His opponent goes into the tank, and says:
-If you have aces, you got me.

After a few minutes he calls with two kings and Ramzi either need to find an ace or get a flush/straight to beat his opponent for this monster pot of 40.000. The flop doesn’t give Ramzi any draws, so only three aces left that can save him. No ace on turn. River…………7. This takes Ramzi to the bar to have a bottle of wine.

These are the 6 players we now have our hope in:
Toni Ojala, 12.500
Jonas “Molle” Molander, 4.400
Enrico Moldenbauer, 5.000
Ivo Donev, 8.500
Benjamin Schaub, 16.000
Thomas Erichsen, 17.000

Per had about 6000, when he was in Small Blind, the player on the dealer button raised up to 4x Big Blind, and Per decided to push his last 6.000 into the pot, mostly to steal all the money that already was in the pot. The turn goes over to the Big Blind player, who surprisingly calls. The player on the button folds.

Per shows JQ and the big blind showed AA. Bad timing by Per, and now he needed more luck than he had with the QQ earlier in the tournament. There never comes any help on the board and Per has to go to the rail.

We are soon going to see more of Per, hopefully and probably already in San Remo in about a month.