€4,350 EPT Budapest Main Event Day 1a | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Budapest

10-28-2008 17:19 UTC+3

Straight for Szamosi

[user46392]

Hungarian native Gabor Szamosi has doubled up, all in on the turn with a made straight and a flush draw against an opponent's two pair. The two pair failed to fill up, and the unhappy opponent is down to 2,000.

Szamosi: {10-Spades}

Opponent:

Board:

10-28-2008 17:23 UTC+3

"Take the Keys To My Hummer"

[user46392]

Another interesting hand from before the break...

In a blind-on-blind battle, the chips went in preflop only for Joseph Rutkai's {A-?}

to make a four-flush against his opponent's rather better {A-Hearts}

. Not content with the outdraw, Rutkai went for the rubdown too -- he shouted something that sounded rather like, "Hasta la vista, baby," before getting out his car keys and offering them to his hapless and now busted opponent, saying, "Here, take the keys to my Hummer, go see Budapest." Extraordinary.

Tags: Joseph Rutkai

10-28-2008 17:25 UTC+3

Thater Takes A Hit

[user46392]

...And one last bit of pre-break action.

Katja Thater is down to less than 4,000. By the turn of a {2-Spades}

board, she had 2,625 of her stack across the line, but laid it down when her opponent raised all in to cover her.

Tags: Katja Thater

Level: 3

Blinds: 75/150

Ante: 0

10-28-2008 17:30 UTC+3

They're Off Again

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Players are heading back to the card room, as are your eager Pokernews reporters.

10-28-2008 17:44 UTC+3

Selected Chip Counts

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In no particular order:

Dave "El Blondie" Colclough: apparently OUT
Joseph "Take My Hummer" Rutkai: 30,000
Luca Pagano: 18,500
Marcel Luske: 13,000
Katja Thater: 3,600
Annette Obrestad: 20,000
Barny Boatman: 10,000
Sorel Mizzi: 14,000
Benjamin Kang: 17,500
Ludovic Lacay: 18,500

10-28-2008 18:00 UTC+3

The Eel Lays Down Queens

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Javier 'Anguila' Etayo doubled up earlier and pushed his stack over 20,000. The Spaniard slipped a bit since then and is currently sitting on 16,200. He told me about a big laydown where he folded queens preflop to a big reraise. It ended up being the right move since his opponent held pocket aces.

Tags: Anguila

10-28-2008 18:11 UTC+3

225 Players Remaining

[user24788]

We're about midway through the third level and 45 runners have already hit the rail.

10-28-2008 18:14 UTC+3

Unlucky Lacay

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Ludovic Lacay has donated a little of his stack to the gentleman on his left, Andrea Sighinolfi. Four or five players made it to the {A-Hearts}

flop, but it checked around to Lacay on the button, who bet 600. Only Sighinolfi in the small blind called.

Sighinolfi checked the {K-Clubs}

turn and Lacay had another stab at it, this time for 1,600, and again Sighinolfi called -- incidentally, while very incongruously sucking on a yellow lollipop. Both players checked the {2-Clubs}