Come Dine With Me
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Level 5
: 150/300, 25 ante
...Or with someone else. Just so long as you're back in 75 minutes you'll be fine.
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: 7
Blinds: 300/600
Ante: 50
Sometimes Smaller Is Better!
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
Sometimes your opponents expect you to move all in so betting smaller completely throws them off course. Nicolas Levi just played a hand that showed this perfectly.
On a board reading 
and with around 12,000 in the pot, Levi bet 5,000 chips, leaving himself just 6,000 behind. This visibly shocked his opponent, weho clearly expected a shove. The play worked as Levi's opponent folded, leaving him to stack up 23,000 chips and giving himself a little more room to play
Sarwer Worse Off
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
An early dent after the dinner break's end to the former chip leader Jeff Sarwer's stack. The trio of culprits: big slick, two pair and an unhelpful river. A pot was already growing when 8,000 was bet (by Sarwer, it looked like) on the turn of a 
board. The button, Guillaume Darcourt, was his only opponent, reaching the river: 
.
Now Sarwer checked, and Darcourt bet 13,500. Sarwer called swiftly, saying, "I hope I didn't get rivered..."
But Darcourt showed 
for rivered trips which had indeed just beaten Sarwer's 
. He counted off the chips, apparently not the first time he'd lost to Darcourt.
"Of course," he sighed, "Every time against you. You can't win tournaments like that. It looked like I got rivered because I did."
Ronan the Destroyer
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
Ronan Monfort, for whom everyone in the press room is secretly rooting (he's one of us, we can't help it!), has just doubled up. We think he reraised from the button to a raise from the gent in the hijack. Mr. Hijack four-bet and Monfort either five-bet or called all in, and it was an easy double up to 40,000 for the young Frenchman.
Monfort: 
Mr. Hijack: 
Board: 
Soulier Glow
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
As we head into the business end of this here Day 1, Mr. Fabrice Soulier has lurched into the lead. The details are a little hazy, but ladies' favourite Soulier has turned an already big stack before dinner into a massive chip-leading stack now - 115,000 and rising.
I'm A Poker Player, Get Me Sarwer Here!
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
Walking through the tournament area just now, I heard the words every blogger loves. No not it's time to go home but "All in!"
The words came from Jeff Sarwer, fresh from his battle with Guillaume Darcourt just moments before. It appeared Sarwer raised preflop, Darcourt came over the top of him, then snap called when Sarwer moved all in.
Sarwer: 
Darcourt: 
The first card out on the flop was the prompting mini "yes" from Sarwer, but any thoughts of celebration were soon halted as the next twoo cards were the and , giving Darcourt a set of queens.
"Of course you flop a set," said a dejected Sarwer and when the 
appeared on the turn, locking up the hand for Darcourt, Sarwer rose from his seat, shook his opponent's hand and quickly left the tournament floor. Whilst he was leaving the dealer completed the hand by putting the 
out there.
Darcourt is now up to 139,725 and could quite possibly be our new chip leader
More Players Needed On Table 7 Please
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
With the elimination of Jeff Sarwer and another player from his table shortly afterwards, Table 7 found itself down to just six players and in need of some players from another table.
Team PokerStars pro Marcin Horecki asked if they could wait until another table broke before they carried on playing, a request that was accepted, though they did not have to wait long as another two players were reseated within a couple of minutes
Still at Each Other's Throats
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
Philipp Steiner and Fredrik Forsell have been battling quite regularly - it seems that since the start of the tournament they (the 4 and 6 seats on their table) have been in an interesting hand almost every orbit. They built another big pot heads up just now, with the bet on the turn being around 8k (it was being drawn in as we arrived). This was on the turn, the board 
.
The river paired the 
and Forsell checked. Steiner bet 16,300. This card seemed to hold Forsell's horses for a while, but he eventually called with what had been the nuts on the turn: . It was still the best hand - Steiner tabled 
for the rivered trips. Advantage Forsell...
MacPhee Continues To Take Notes
Level 7
: 300/600, 50 ante
If Kevin MacPhee takes any more notes then someone in the press room is going to have to give him a notepad to jot his thoughts down in, as he must be running out of space to write anything.
He has just raised to 1,325 from under the gun and then folded when he saw Vitaly Lunkin raise to 4,000 and then the big blind make ot 12,200 to play. This even priced Lunkin out of the pot and as he folded he waved around as if he had just folded kings preflop.
Meanwhile, the studious MacPhee continued jotting down his thoughts on his opponent's play.