Babel No Fish
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Level 9
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
With less than hour left of play, our chip leader is Frenchman Nicolas Babel. The towers of Babel currently amount to 170,000.
2010 EPT Prague
Main Event
Day: 1a
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,730,550
Entries
563
Level
32
Blinds
100,000 / 200,000
Ante
20,000
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Horecki Multi-tasking
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Team PokerStars pro Marcin Horecki is showing his dedication to the game. Not only has he managed to go from 25,000 chips to 80,000 in the last half hour but he has managed to do so whilst playing the $109 No Limit Hold'em Central & Eastern European COOP-005 on PokerStars on his laptop!
If you want to rail him search for "Goral" and you should see he is around 192nd from 287 remaining players. Good luck sir
Last Break O'Clock
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Incorporating a colour up too. Back in 15.
Wies Beyond His Years
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Another giganto-stack as we head towards the last break of the day is [Removed:297]. Most recently he cracked pocket kings with pocket fives, and is at 138,000.
Lookalike of the Day
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Maria Maceiras, to Martin Kabrhel: "Has anyone ever told you how much lookalike you are Sheldon Cooper?"
We assume she means the character from popular TV show The Big Bang Theory. No comment from us.
Vaserfirer-ing Blanks
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Oleksander Vaserfirer has lost some of his substantial stack, but not enough to cause him much worry.
On a flop that read 
, Vaserfirer bet 2,500 when the big blind checked to him. After a 20 second pause, the big blind made the call.
With the arrival of the 
on the turn, the big blind checked again. Vaserfirer took another look at his hole cards and promptly made a bet of 5,100 chips. With no movement other than to grab a handful of chips, his opponent announced raise and put 16,500 worth of chips across the betting line. After a double check of his cards and a couple of seconds of resting his head in his hands, Vaserfirer mucked.
Altman Takes Short Cut to Exit
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Thomas Finneran is up to 60,000 now after polishing off Robert Altman with a timely Ace-spike. The betting was all preflop - Finneran putting the shorter stack to the test with a re-raise which looked like a four-bet would not shift it into a fold. Indeed, when Altman moved in, he was immediately called, and probably fairly happy about it:
Altman: 
Finneran: 
You know what comes next: the harmless 
flop but then the 
turn and river sending Altman to the rail. He displayed not an eyebrow twitch - simply placidly letting his friend know he was out before sauntering from the tournament arena like he'd just come in here for a rest anyhow.
Wigg and Let Die
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
Anton Wigg has been eliminated from the tournament. We're not sure what went down but there is certainly an empty chair where the Swede once sat and he's nowhere to be seen in the tournament area.
The 2010 ET Copenhagen champion will not be adding a second title to his resume here in Prague.
Sad Stack
Level 8
: 400/800, 75 ante
One table has a ghost player, and judging from the snippets of conversation picked up passing it, he's been playing pretty tight since dinner. Blinded down to just 2,700, in fact, and unlikely to arrive before he's hit the felt entirely.
Overheard:
"I feel bad for him. His first EPT, flew all the way... blinds off."
"Maybe he thought it was a rebuy or re-entry tournament?"
"No, he's fallen asleep."