2008 PokerStars.com EPT Warsaw
EPT Polish Open Main Event
Day: 2
Minieri Pushes Two Off of Pot; Pleased With Self
...Only for Dario Minieri to make it 61,000 from the small blind. Lacay got out of the way pretty sharpish, but Rotach spent a few tortured moments wondering what to do. Said Minieri, to help him make his decision: "This is not gambling. It is end of day, I am happy with these chips. I have lost with this hand so may times." Rotach passed. Minieri, incredibly pleased with himself, showed .
"It's OK," said Lacay. "You were beating me."
Eskilsson's Hopes Killed as He Bubbles
Eskilsson:
Mattern:
Board:
Thus Eskilsson is our unlucky bubbler and we are in the money.
Day 2 Concludes, Play Resumes at 2 p.m. Tomorrow
Among the lucky survivors are Dario Minieri, Isabelle Mercier, Roland de Wolfe, Arnaud Mattern, Ludovic Lacay, Joao Barbosa, and WSOP $10K PLO bracelet winner Marty Smyth. Sergey Shcherbatskiy finished the night as the chip leader, with more than 265,000 in his stack.
Not as fortunate were Johnny Lodden, Gavin Griffin, Alan Smurfit, Johannes Strassmann, Sebastian Ruthenberg, and Antony Lellouche-- the latter going from chip leader to out of the tournament in the space of just over an hour. Katja Thater also just missed out on the money, despite her short-stack ninja tactics that allowed her to survive to the final 35 players despite never getting above 30,000 in chips.
Official chip counts will be posted as soon as they become available.
Our 24 money finishers will return tomorrow at 2 p.m. local time to play down to a final table of eight. Join us again as we grow ever-closer to crowning a new EPT champion...and, of course, to see what odd Polish food we're being served in the media room.
Until then, good night and good luck from Warsaw.
Official List of Day 3 Players and Chip Counts
Sergey Shcherbatskiy 265,900
Dario Minieri 211,400
Roland de Wolfe 169,900
Arnaud Mattern 139,200
Uffe Holm 127,900
Juan Manuel Pastor 117,100
Nico Behling 112,700
Kevin MacPhee 97,200
Ludovic Lacay 89,100
Joao Barbosa 85,900
Andrea Benelli 78,000
Atanas Gueorguiev 74,800
Mika Puro 71,600
Brian Jensen 69,500
Moises Parrilla Ramos 60,500
Isabelle Mercier 55,600
Christoffer Egmo 55,200
Eduard Kapitonov 53,900
Patric Martensson 52,900
Stefan Rotach 52,500
Marty Smyth 38,600
Josh Gould 36,800
Michael Muheim 36,700
Julien Van Lang 23,100
EPT Polish Open Main Event
Day 2 Completed