2010 PokerStars.com EPT Tallinn

Day 1b completed

Posted 08-13-2010 03:07 GMT+3 by ebhizzle

End of Day 1b Chip Counts (full)

Posted 08-13-2010 03:06 GMT+3 by ebhizzle

Chip Counts
1	Perica Bukara		210,600	0
2			176,300	0
3			147,800	0
4	Volodymyr Pilyavsky		147,600	0
5	Jonathan Weekes		145,400	0
6	Daniel Aldridge		141,000
7	Oleksandr Vaserfirer		136,900
8	Manuel Bevand		130,200	28,200
9	Kestutis Slankauskas		125,700
10	Vallo Maidla		123,300	0
11			118,000
12	Lorenz Roder		116,100
13	Vitalijs Zavorotnijs		115,000
14	Marc Naalden		114,600	29,600
15	Juha Lauttamus		109,000
16	Vadim Markushevski	PokerStars Team Pro (Belarus)	105,900	20,900
17	Frederik Oskar Boberg		104,800
18	Maxime Conte		102,900
19	Christopher Murphy		101,800
20	Sam Iola		98,800
21	Janis Basevics		95,500
22	Pustolas Povilas		94,800
23	Peter Cerven		88,600
24	Andrea Benelli		84,500
25	Raymi Sanchez Thorn		84,000

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Posted 08-12-2010 23:56 GMT+3 by danafish

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Bukara Leads at the End of Day 1b

Posted 08-12-2010 23:43 GMT+3 by ebhizzle

Chip leader Perica Bukara

Then sun has set on a rainy Day 1b in Tallinn, and when the clouds parted, Perica Bukara was the player with the stack to beat. He came to Estonia straight from Prague, where he took sixth in the Unibet Open a few days ago. His hot streak continued early today, and he used his chips skillfully to amass 210,600 by the end of the night. Santiago Terrazas took the opposite approach, winning a massive pot with aces in the last 20 minutes to move into the second spot.

Pros Manuel Bevand, Vadim Markushevski, Marc Naalden, and Katja Thater will also be back for Day 2. Thater is the only female to return tomorrow to join around 200 men. Among those not as lucky were ElkY Grospellier, Dario Minieri, Shaun Deeb, Sorel Mizzi, and the only other female to play today, Fatima Moreira de Melo.

Day 1b saw 239 entrants whittled to slightly over 100. They will join the 89 players who survived Day 1a on Friday at noon local time to work their ways ever closer to the money, and eventually, a shot at the €400,000 first prize. Join us back here at PokerNews for all of the Estonian excitement.

Daze Turns into Weekes for Thorsson

Posted 08-12-2010 23:42 GMT+3 by danafish

Just before the end of the night, Kristoffer Thorsson was crippled when he doubled up Jonathan Weekes. We didn't quite catch what Thorsson was holding before the dealer swept the whole lot up, but Weekes doubled to a chunky 145,000 while Thorsson was knocked back to around his 30,000 starting stack.

Tags: Jonathan Weekes, Kristoffer Thorsson.

Buk' Em, Boys

Posted 08-12-2010 23:39 GMT+3 by danafish

Just as the tournament director declared last four hands, Perica Bukara and Dmitry Bezlepkin saw a flop. All the chips went in, and Bezlepkin must have felt awful when he discovered that his pocket aces had been outdrawn by Bukara's pocket eights.

Bukara won another smallish hand after that, and when it came to bag up the chips a hand or two later, his 210,600 was good enough to take the overall chip lead.

Tags: Perica Bukara, Dmitry Bezlepkin.

Four Square

Posted 08-12-2010 23:20 GMT+3 by ebhizzle

They've paused the clock for the night and started the countdown from four hands. At the end of those, the remaining players will bag and tag and head to bed (or the bars) in preparation for Day 2.

Krause, But No Cigar

Posted 08-12-2010 23:10 GMT+3 by Homer

Manuel Bevand opened preflop to 2,500 before Vitalijs Zavorotnijs reraised to 6,700. Damien Krause then moved all-in for about 15,000, Bevand folded and Zavorotnijs instantly called with .

Krause shook his head and showed which couldn't improve on the board and he was knocked out.

Tags: Vitalijs Zavorotnijs, Manuel Bevand.

Amourette Sour

Posted 08-12-2010 23:06 GMT+3 by Homer

Antoine Amourette, who finished 3rd in the WPT in Paris in May has just suffered a bit of a setback to knock him back down under the 6-figure mark.

He had put Guillermo Montero all-in preflop with but the Venezuelan turned over and survived a minor sweat on the board to double up to around 65,000.

Amourette has about 70,000 remaining.

Tags: Antoine Amourette.

Ladies Are Lucky for Hakim

Posted 08-12-2010 22:59 GMT+3 by danafish

Gregory Bucci was already all in from the hijack for 10,600 and Dmitry Bezlepkin had called from the cutoff when Jeffrey Hakim reshoved from the big blind for 24,000 more. Bazlepkin made the call, and they were all three of them on their proverbial backs, Hakim swearing as he saw what he was up against.

Bucci:
Bezlepkin:
Bucci:

But wait!

Board:

"Jeez, no diamonds?" mused Hakim as he more than doubled to around 90,000. Bucci meanwhile took his leave.

"What happened?" called over a buddy of Hakim's from another table.

"Just got lucky," Hakim told him and sat back down.

Tags: Jeffrey Hakim.