2009 PokerStars.com EPT Grand Final
€10,000 EPT Grand Final Main Event
Day: 1b
Van Den Berg Vs. Ziigmund
Van den Berg and Sahamies just now tangled and it was van den Berg who came out on top -- he bet 6,000 on the river of a board, and after a long time in the tank, Sahamies passed. Ben Kang claimed to have seen Sahamies' hand, and claimed it was a queen-high flush. "He had a flush on the turn?" said van den Berg, "I should have bet the flop."
Overheard at the Tables
"We played together in the tournament in Macau. The PokerStars one -- not that other one..."
"That bluff went wrong at Bay101."
"Yeah, it was the wrong guy..."
"Did your boy there tell you how he won 20,000 chips 45 minutes ago with one pair?"
"Geez, what kind of table is this? People are laying down queens. At the other table they go all in with deuces!"
Mehr Licht-enberger!
These eliminations seem to be coming thick and fast in the secondary tournament area. It's as if the players are helping the tournament directors break their tables nice and early in advance of the €550 shootout coming soon (the first ever held at the EPT).
No Stress for Strassmann
Feldman Busts Nelly
The under the gun player raised to 300, which Feldman called with . "A loose player made it 1,200 then," continues Feldman, "And Nelly called - so did I and so did a third player."
The flop came . Three checks to Nelly, who bet 5,000. With no interest elsewhere, Feldman tanked, deciding how to play what he thought was the best hand. He made it 15,000. Nelly instacalled. The came on the turn, Feldman checked and Nelly moved all in. Call. Nelly's was drawing thin and after the river he was out the door.
His bodyguard (overheard): "Man, he was out in like half an hour!"
Who's That Girl?
There's quite a sampling of hot chicks in today's field. If blondes are your thing, you can spend a few hours drooling over Vanessa Rousso, Isabelle Mercier, Katja Thater and Vicky Coren. Maybe you like brunettes. We have those too. Liv Boeree, Sandra Naujoks and Alexia Portal have all turned their share of heads, just in the last hour. If your interests lie more to the East, there's always Evelyn Ng, Liz Lieu, Liya Gerasimova and Wooka Kim.
Nobody ever complained about a little eye candy while playing or writing about poker. Certainly not us.
A Few More Tables Of Terror
- Julian Thew, Juha Helppi and Atanas Gueorguiev
- Tony Cascarino, Jeff Madsen, Barny Boatman, Laurence Houghton and Yevgeniy Timoshenko
Yikes to all of those.
One Pair is Good
Level: 2
Blinds: 75/150
Ante: 0