2010 EPT Snowfest Main Event Day 1a | 2010 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

03-21-2010 18:59 UTC+2

How Are They Doing?

[user46392]

Doing Well

EPT Kyiv winner Maxim Lykov , despite losing a small pot when we strolled by his table, is extremely comfortable on over 60,000.

Doing Badly

Martin Wendt was spotted walking away from his table, presumably in a fit of steaming over a large pot lost. He's not busto, but when he returns to the table it will be to a severely depleted stack of just 7,500.

03-21-2010 19:05 UTC+2

Negreanu Slides Further

[user46392]

Another hit for Daniel Negreanu (small blind) as he bet 2,500 into a 3,000 pot on the river of a {J-Clubs}

board. His opponent (big blind) made the call and Negreanu announced, "King-high," but then mucked his hand when Mr. Big Blind turned over {A-Hearts}

for a better nothing than Negreanu.

Kid Poker is down to a pint-sized 16,700.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

03-21-2010 19:14 UTC+2

Kastle Crumbling

Mickey Doft

On a

board, Casey Kastle was facing a bet of 2,100. He raised it up to 7,500, having that opponent covered. Two other players in the hand folded and the bettor called all in for his last 5,400 with {K-Hearts}

.

Kastle tabled {6-Clubs}

and failed to hit his draws as the {Q-Spades}

turn and

river were no help. He slips down to 16,000.

Tags: Casey Kastle

03-21-2010 19:15 UTC+2

Dinner Plans

[user66118]

The staff has just made dinner plans for the players.

The field will be broken in half, with the first flight of players heading to the buffet at the conclusion of this level. They'll have 75 minutes to chow, and which point they'll be tagged out by the hungry half of the room. They'll return to play their fifth level, and then the field will recombine for Level 6 once everyone has had their fill.

We'll be working away through both dinner breaks, so if anyone is in the area and wants to drop off dinner for your beloved bloggers...

03-21-2010 19:27 UTC+2

The Final Runner

[user66118]

It appears that we may have picked up one more player since the official numbers came in. We've just spotted a Max Pescatori at Table 3, and he is supposed to be in the Day 1b field. The Italian Pirate is, however, most certainly playing today.

That tentatively moves the Day 1a up to a total of 270 runners.

03-21-2010 19:38 UTC+2

Ravnsbaek and Forth

[user46392]

Jesper Hougaard raised in the hijack, only for Simon Ravnsbaek to make it 2,050 from the cutoff. Everyone else got out of their way, and the action was back on Hougaard. He promptly made it 5,200.

Ravnsbaek thought about it for a long time, before announcing, "I wanna go snowboarding anyway," and pushing his whole 35,000 stack across the line. Hougaard insta-folded.

"It's too dark to go snowboarding," noted another player at the table. "Oh, you're right," said Ravnsbaek. "Then I shouldn't have done it."

03-21-2010 19:39 UTC+2

Wendt Not Gone

[user46392]

Martin Wendt got his tiny stack in with {7-Spades}

and got called by the big blind holding {J-Spades}

. Wendt was already standing and chatting with a friend at the rail when the board came down {10-Spades}

to double him up to 15,000.

Tags: Martin Wendt

03-21-2010 19:41 UTC+2

Negreanu Miffed

Mickey Doft

Daniel Negreanu does not appear to be very thrilled with the player that has just been seated to his right. Negreanu was the big blind and posted the 300, while the new addition to his table coincidentally (or conveniently) sat down just afterward.

Though he seemed to be saying the following things light heartedly, the words "cheating" and "blind dodging" were thrown around. Negreanu also said that his new opponent must be "comfortable with angles" and that "karma will have its say."

Negreanu is sitting on a stack of roughly 26,000.

Tags: Daniel Negreanu

03-21-2010 19:42 UTC+2

Break it Up

[user66118]

That's another two levels in the books. Half the field has gone off for their dinner break while the other half is just taking a 15-minute breather. We'll be back in a flash.

Level: 5

Blinds: 150/300

Ante: 25