2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
96
Prize
€2,300,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€10,000
Prize Pool
€9,350,000
Entries
935
Level Info
Level
33
Blinds
120,000 / 240,000
Ante
0

Hip Hop... Hip Hop Anonymous!

Platinum recording artist Nelly spent some time with Gloria before he sat down to play on Day 1b, here at the EPT Grand Final. Unfortunately, he's since busted from the tournament, but is currently hanging out around the poker room, mingling with some of the players. We've got a reporter on Jeff Madsen v. Nelly battle watch. Keep your fingers crossed.

Tags: Jeff MadsenNelly

Level: 8

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 75

Hachem Doubles Through Fry, Goes off on One

Hachem - won the World Series
Hachem - won the World Series
Oh dear, a fight seems to have broken out on the Table Of Doom after Joe Hachem doubled through Will Fry with {A-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} on a board of {8-?} {A-?} {2-?} {10-?} {2-?}. By the particular timbre of the "oohs!" around the table, we deduced that Fry had been holding a better ace preflop.

"Thank you come again," said Hachem in a rubdown sort of way, and then went off on some sort of rant involving him repeatedly mentioning that he'd once won the WSOP main event.

I believe this had something to do with an earlier supposed rubdown that had come from Fry, in a hand where Fry outdrew him. The actual background surrounding this is admittedly somewhat hazy, but Fry was quietly asking Hachem to, "Relax," while Hachem continued, "Just because you win the World Series you can't complain about losing a hand? You're all a bunch of wankers." The discussion was still raging some minutes later.

Hachem: 24,000
Fry: 33,000

Tags: Joe HachemWill Fry

Laak Can't Let It Go Quietly

Weirdly, and pretty quietly, when releasing a hand or making a decision, the entire table gets a kind of stream-of-consciousness monologue from Phil Laak. Just now he was in form, amusingly letting go of a 15,000 pot after his opponent had bet 6,400 on the river of a {K-Spades} {4-Hearts} {10-Spades} {K-Hearts} {4-Spades} board after Laak had checked.

Laak: "Do you want me to call, sir?"
Opponent: [no response]
Laak: "Or you can just sit there motionless and stoic.. What do you have left? (roughly 10,500) So it's a milky type bet. Take the money! It hurts me though, hurts me..."

While his opponent stacked the chips, "OK I'm over it!" Phil declared.

Tags: Phil Laak

Waiting for a Chip Leader

At this point of the day, there are several players vying for the chip lead. They're all in the roughly 140,000-chip range. So far we haven't counted anyone with more chips than Dag Palovic's 144,500, but that doesn't mean that a bigger stack isn't out there. There are at least three other stacks in that range in the room.

Tags: Dag Palovic

Sevens Not Lucky For Kang

Kang: master of the two word commentary
Kang: master of the two word commentary
Benjamin Kang called a preflop raise of 1,800 from the button, which brought a heads up flop of {J-Hearts} {6-Clubs} {10-Hearts}. The raiser checked and Kang checked behind. On the {7-Hearts} turn, Kang called a bet of 3,000 fairly quickly, but thought a lot more about the 4,000 bet on the {Q-Diamonds} river.

"So sick," he commented, still not releasing his grip on the chips for the call. "You're just folding anyway," said his impatient opponent. No - he called, only to be shown {7-Clubs} {7-Spades} by his opponent. Kang mucked saying "So sick," another couple of times for good measure.

Tags: Benjamin Kang

Worked Out Nice Again for Sahamies

Controversy on the Table Of Doom as German player Jan-Peter Jachtmann ("From Hamburg," a cheerful George Danzer informed us, repeatedly) moved all in on a {K-Hearts} {A-Hearts} {2-Hearts} {6-Spades} board. It appears that when the action moved around to Ilari Sahamies on the button, he said something that was probably, "Oh," but the dealer somehow heard "all in" instead. The floor was called and after everyone at the table spent some time all talking at once, it was decided that Sahamies was indeed calling all in.

Sahamies: {K-Diamonds} {J-Diamonds}
Jachtmann from Hamburg: {7-Clubs} {7-Diamonds}

River: {3-Hearts}

Jachtmann exploded in a flurry of German (probably) expletives, while Sahamies coolly declared, "I think I would call anyway," and raked in the 44,000 pot. Jachtmann down to 14,000 and full of anger.

Tags: Ilari Sahamies

Cheers!

If it's getting towards the end of the day, it must be time for Peter Hedlund to start drinking. He and one of the other players at the table have each just had a glass of red wine delivered to the table. Hedlund declared it "Not bad" after a toast to his new drinking companion. We expect good things to be happening at the back of the room in about an hour.

Bummer for Ummer

Just when it looked like Per Ummer's stack was heading in the right direction, it was cut down to the danger zone by M. Bisano. A threeway pot grew to over 20,000 by the turn, the board reading {6-Hearts} {7-Clubs} {8-Spades} {9-Diamonds}. Ummer, on the button, had bet the flop and failed to shake anyone, and now had it checked to him again. He bet 12,000 and Bisano alone called.

The river was the {2-Hearts}. Bisano checked, and this time Ummer opted to check behind, leaving himself 8,000. He showed down {Q-Hearts} {8-Hearts} - which was no good vs. Bisano's {10-Clubs} {10-Spades} .

Tags: BisanoPer Ummer