€8,300 EPT Barcelona Main Event Day 1b | 2009 PokerStars.com EPT Barcelona

09-05-2009 17:05 UTC+3

So Good They Named Him Twice

[user46392]

A small loss made not much of a dent in the stack of [Removed:197].

The board read {K-Hearts}

and [Removed:198], in the under the gun position, bet out 2,075, scaring off one of his two opponents but not the other.

They went heads-up to the {6-Hearts}

river, which both checked, and [Removed:198]'s {J-Spades}

was no match for his opponent's {Q-Spades}

.

[Removed:198] is nevertheless possessor or 42,000 in chips.

09-05-2009 17:04 UTC+3

Kings Give a Boost to Smith

donpeters

Justin "BoostedJ" Smith checked behind on the flop of {9-Clubs}

after his opponent checked. The turn brought the {J-Hearts}

and action checked to Smith again. This time, he fired a bet of 600. His opponent called.

The river was the {Q-Hearts}

and Smith bet 2,200 after his opponent checked. The player made the call and Smith tabled {K-Spades}

to scoop the pot.

Smith was down a little bit early on, but is now back to his starting stack of 30,000 chips.

Tags: "BoostedJ"Justin Smith

Level: 4

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 0

09-05-2009 17:01 UTC+3

Dario Minieri has fully recovered from his earlier knocks down to 13,000 or so, and can now apparently afford to lose the odd pot.

We caught up with him betting out 1,000 on the river of an {A-Spades}

board, only for his opponent to raise to 2,600. Minieri disappeared into the tank.

"Pocket fives?" he enquired after a while. "Maybe," was the noncommittal response from his opponent. Back into the tank.

Eventually Minieri called time on himself, and not long after, sighed and tossed the call over the line.

His opponent flipped {5-Diamonds}

for the top straight, and Minieri mucked.

Nevertheless, Minieri is currently sitting on a more than respectable 35,000.

Tags: Dario Minieri

09-05-2009 16:44 UTC+3

Negreanu Check-Raises Eastgate

donpeters

Daniel Negreanu min-raised to 400 from the cutoff and Peter Eastgate reraised from the button to 1,300. Negreanu made the call and the two pros were heads up to the flop.

The flop came down {9-Clubs}

and Negreanu checked. Eastgate fired a bet of 1,500. Quickly, Negreanu raised to 4,000. Eastgate folded as quickly as the raise went in and Negreanu scooped the pot.

Negreanu is up to 41,000 while Eastgate is down to 22,000.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu Peter Eastgate

09-05-2009 16:43 UTC+3

Jepsen Makes Light Of Situation

[user76023]

Former EPT champion Peter Jepsen has just 7,000 chips but is putting a positive spin on it by pretending he started with just 10,000 (the amount players had in the old structure). At the moment though, that is still 35 big blinds which means he still has some time yet.

09-05-2009 16:41 UTC+3

Sointula Sunk

[user46392]

We are down one long-haired Scandinavian, as Jani Sointula has suffered a misfortune.

The tale was retold by tablemate Brandon Schaefer, who informed me that Sointula had got it in with pocket kings against Alain Roy's, er, pocket kings. "Alain had the king of clubs, though" he continued, with, presumably, four clubs on the board by the end. "I folded queens," added John Kabbaj.

Tags: Jani Sointula

09-05-2009 16:41 UTC+3

Veldhuis Keeps Pushing On

[user76023]

Lex Veldhuis raises to 650 from UTG. Peter Eastgate called in middle position before Juha Lauttamus reraised to 2,150 from the small blind.

Undeterred, Veldhuis now reraised to 5,250 and Eastgate got out of the way, former EPT finalist Lauttamus also quickly folded and Veldhuis showed the {2-Clubs}

.

09-05-2009 16:38 UTC+3

Kang Pushes the Competition Off

[user46392]

Benjamin Kang got as far as the turn of a {10-Spades}

board before moving all in to a bet from his opponent. After some consideration, his opponent made a disgruntled face and folded {A-Diamonds}

face up. Kang declined to show.

Tags: Benjamin Kang

09-05-2009 16:21 UTC+3

Riverman Only Needs a Flop

[user46392]

Laurence "Riverman1" Houghton is up to 34,000, not a bad start for the online wizard.

Most recently he saw a {3-Hearts}

flop and his opponent bet out 1,500. Houghton made it 4,800 and his opponent swiftly passed. Houghton showed him {A-Hearts}

.

While this whole hand was going on, a tablemate appeared to be involved in a long and impassioned lecture directed at Houghton, the subject of which seemed to be that Britain was only ever a great country because of its history of colonizing and plundering other nations. Houghton nodded politely.

Tags: Laurence Houghton