EPT Polish Open Main Event Day 1b | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw

EPT Polish Open Main Event

Day 1b Completed

11-17-2008 08:39 UTC+2

Official List of Day 2 Players and Chip Counts

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Below are the official Day 2 starting chip counts for our 109 survivors from Day 1A and 1B, courtesy of PokerStars:

Roland De Wolfe 67,150
Antony Lellouche 57,600
Alain Roy 50,950
Ludovic Lacay 49,600
Christoffer Egmo 46,175
Dario Minieri 43,975
Andreas Krause 43,825
Sebastian Ruthenberg 41,950
Johnny Lodden 41,450
Bertrand Grospellier 41,425
Marco Fantini 41,000
Sergey Shcherbatskiy 40,950
Serguei Pomerantsev 39,175
Brian Jensen 39,050
Victor Lemos 37,675
Mark Teltscher 37,100
Michael Muheim 36,875
Josh Gould 36,150
Atanas Gueorguiev 31,975
Peter Jepsen 31,400
Moises Parrilla Ramos 30,650
Fabian Holling 30,375
Nico Behling 28,375
Arnaud Mattern 27,675
Kenneth Paul Hicks Jr. 26,425
Benny Falkenstrom 26,275
Julio Pollan 26,275
Isabelle Mercier 25,950
Joao Barbosa 25,450
Nicolo Calia 24,100
Brian Linnet 23,950
Patric Martensson 23,525
Nicolas Liakos 22,600
Ilja Savolainen 22,500
Michal Piechowski 22,500
Richard Gryko 22,250
Marcin Doliwa 21,975
Michał Zaremba 21,625
Juan Manuel Pastor 21,400
Juan Maceiras 21,300
Thomas Floan 21,125
Johannes Strassmann 21,025
Jacques Zaicik 20,975
Mika Puro 20,150
Gavin Griffin 19,925
Americo Spinozzi 19,300
Bartosz Skorupa 19,175
Kevin Macphee 18,975
Sandor Toth 18,900
Thomas Wolfer 18,250
Katja Thater 17,850
Gerrit Jan Van Hese 17,550
Andrea Benelli 17,250
Robert Kucharski 17,250
Grzegorz Mikielewicz 16,750
Hans Eskilsson 16,350
Laurence Houghton 16,100
Piotr Kopacki 15,450
Mario Kuhl 15,125
Sebastian Szuster 14,850
Frederik Brink Jensen 14,750
Miguel Antonio Silva Aroso 14,400
Remy Biechel 14,250
Alan Smurfit 14,000
Christophe Benzimra 13,975
Espen Slavensky 13,450
Gunnar Klietsch 13,350
Sven Leu 13,250
Alexander Kravchenko 13,150
Toni Ojola 12,975
Dan Pedersen 12,700
Beniamino Speroni 11,675
Andersson Mathias Per Gunnar 11,650
Csaba Toth 11,600
Nabil Bennour 11,575
Nicolas Levi 11,500
Stefan Rotach 11,050
Dino Civano Dinler 10,475
Michał Wiśniewski 10,150
Raul Paez 10,025
Bruno De Bari 10,000
Philippe Taupin 9,800
Pascal Perrault 9,525
Stefan Hjorthall 9,150
Leszek Krawczyński 9,125
Anthony Quinn 9,100
Eduard Kapitonov 9,025
Aliaksandr Marchanka 9,000
Zbigniew Szczep 8,875
Gino Alacqua 8,850
Jerzy Hajdamowicz 8,550
Marty Smyth 8,050
Uffe Holm 7,800
Stanisław Pardo 7,750
Jonas Molander 7,700
Aditya Agarwal 7,625
Michael Keiner 7,575
Vayo Gordon Francis 7,550
Joe Serock 7,400
Krzysztof Tabaszewski 7,150
Jaakko Lauttamus 7,000
Vanessa Thobert 6,125
Andrej Nagy 5,600
Wojciech Frankowski 4,600
Julien Van Lang 4,150
Miroslaw Klys 3,800
Dariusz Paszkiewicz 3,625
Riccardo Mazzitelli 3,200
Bekdas Sabri 3,075

11-17-2008 00:13 UTC+2

Day 1B Concludes; Day 2 Starts at 2pm With 113 Runners Remaining

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The 118 starters from Day 1B have now been whittled down to a mere 56, the pack very firmly led by Irish Open champion Roland De Wolfe, who has roughly 70,000 in chips.

Notable players who fell by the wayside include EPT Budapest winner Will Fry, EPT London winner Michael Martin, Luca Pagano, Sorel Mizzi, Marcin Horecki, and William Thorson. Those who will be returning tomorrow to join the 53 Day 1A survivors in the sweltering cardroom include Dario Minieri, Katja Thater, Isabelle Mercier, Mark Teltscher, and ElkY.

Join us once again at 2pm local time to see who goes up, who blows up, and which unusual salads they will be eating while they do it.

11-17-2008 00:07 UTC+2

One More Dario Bluff to Close the Night

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With 8,000 already in the middle of a raised and reraised pot, the flop came down {K-Diamonds}

. Both Dario Minieri and his opponent checked. The turn was the {A-Spades}

and Minieri led out for 5,500.

"Pocket tens no good," Dario cautioned.

His warning worked and his opponent folded his hand.

"Show the bluff!" he implored, before turning over one of his hole cards, the {6-Hearts}

.

Dario flipped over a {9-?}

and then a {7-?}

for yet another spectacular bluff.

Tags: Dario Minieri

11-17-2008 00:01 UTC+2

Five More Hands

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The clock has now been stopped and five more hands will be played before everyone gets to go home tonight.

11-17-2008 00:00 UTC+2

Grinder Of the Day

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This award must certainly go to Aditya Agarwal, who incidentally grinded his way into being the very first person to bust out in the money back at the Budapest EPT. Mr Agarwal is still in, on a shaky but anything's-possible 7,500, and we don't believe that he's been above his starting stack at any point today.

Tags: Aditya Agarwal

11-16-2008 23:56 UTC+2

ElkY Dominates His Table

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ElkY continues his full-on aggresion-fest and total domination of his table. Raising from the button, he was met by a reraise from the big blind. Not in the slightest bit put off, ElkY re-popped, enough to cover the big blind's remaining 12,000 or so by a good long way. After an uncomfortable dwell, the big blind folded. ElkY showed an enigmatic, unimpressive {4-Spades}

and raked in the chips.

Tags: ElkY

11-16-2008 23:40 UTC+2

Isa-Bluff?

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With the action folded around to Peter Jepsen, he made it 1,000 to go from the button. Isabelle Mercier, newly moved to his table, popped it to 3,000 from the small blind and Gino Alacqua gave up his big blind. Jepsen called the additional 2,000.

The flop came down {8-Hearts}

and Mercier made a continuation bet of 4,600. Jepsen asked how much she had behind, and she cut her stack down, revealing an additional 13,600 in chips. Jepsen elected to lay down his hand.

As Mercier stacked up the pot, Alacqua noticed a small notebook sitting next to Mercier's chips.

"What's that book?" queried Alacqua.

"It's where I write down all my bluffs" replied Mercier.

"You're not writing now" noticed Jepsen.

"Well, I wasn't bluffing!" she laughed.

Mercier now on 26,000 as the remaining minutes in Day 1B tick away.

Tags: Gino Alacqua Isabelle Mercier Peter Jepsen

11-16-2008 23:37 UTC+2

It Really is Hot in Here

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Inquiring what had become of Nicolas Levi's hat, he replied that it was simply too hot and he'd had to remove it. Ignoring my assertion that he would lose his magical powers without it, he went on, "At night, they take the tables out of here, put some water in and it becomes a sauna." It seems possible...

Tags: Nicolas Levi

11-16-2008 23:35 UTC+2

Musical Chairs

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Table Levi/Molander has now been broken, and its former residents scattered across the cardroom.

Nicolas Levi's arrival at his new seat on the immediate left of Sebastian Ruthenberg was met by an odd, dirty sounding laugh from tablemate and fellow Frenchman, (and incidentally, legendary British DJ John Peel lookalike) Jacques Zaicik. Slightly disconcerting, that.

Just as happy was Isabelle Mercier on learning that she was moving to a spot sandwiched between Peter Jepsen, who has stripped down to his undershirt for purposes of receiving a massage, and jovial Italian Gino Alacqua. "I am coming next to you, my friend," she called over to Alacqua. "I don't know how," she continued as she attempted to pick her way through the crowded tournament area. Eventually she reached her new seat, happily chanting, "Yay! Yay! Yay!" Possibly the heat is getting to Ms. Mercier...

Tags: Gino Alacqua Isabelle Mercier Nicolas Levi