2010 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

2010 EPT Snowfest Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info

2010 PokerStars.net EPT Snowfest

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
77
Prize
€445,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€3,500
Entries
546
Level Info
Level
30
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
0

He's a Brick Veldhuis

From the hijack seat, an unknown player opened the pot to 7,500. On the button, Lex Veldhuis three-bet to 18,500, and the raiser announced a call. It wasn't his turn though, as the blinds were yet to act. They eventually folded, and the raiser's verbal call was binding.

He and Veldhuis went off to a flop of {A-Hearts} {8-Spades} {6-Clubs}. They check-checked it, and the dealer plunked the {2-Clubs} on fourth street. When his opponent checked again, Veldhuis made a delayed continuation bet of 15,000. His opponent had about 43,000 chips left in his stack, and he apparently intended to make the smooth call. Unfortunately for him, though, he accidentally stuck out 25,000, and the floor made him put in the extra 5,000 required for a legal raise. Veldhuis promptly moved all in, and the mistake-prone player could not bear the sight of his predicament. He stood from his chair, visibly frustrated, then splashed his final few thousand chips into the pot.

Showdown
All-In Player: {J-Clubs} {5-Clubs}
Veldhuis: {A-Diamonds} {Q-Spades}

Veldhuis was ahead with his pair of aces, and he'd tally the knockout if he could fade a river club. The {5-Diamonds} that peeled off the deck was indeed safe, and that elimination moves Lex up to about 305,000.

Tags: Lex Veldhuis

Collopy Fails to Dodge Bullets

Mark Bech raised it up from the cutoff and birthday boy Jim Collopy called on the button to see a {K-Clubs} {4-Spades} {6-Clubs} flop, on which Bech bet out 17,000. Collopy called and they proceeded.

Both players checked the {4-Clubs} turn, but Bech stuck in another bet on the {9-Diamonds} river, this time 35,000. Collopy removed his shades and paused his ipod, so it was clear that he was very serious about it. Eventually he called - and then mucked when Bech turned over {A-Clubs} {A-Hearts}.

Tags: Jim CollopyMark Bech

Small Stack Turns to Bigoni

Christian Oppersklaski opened for 8,000 under the gun, and then called the 66,300 shove from Giovanni Bigoni on the button.

Oppersklaski: {A-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds}
Bigoni: {A-Spades} {A-Hearts}

Board: {3-Spades} {8-Clubs} {2-Clubs} {10-Clubs} {8-Hearts}

A fist pump and a little, "Woo!" later, Bigoni was up to 140,000.

Don't Mess With Toth

Curiousness at the table by the window as Richard Toth raised to 6,500 under the gun and Johannes Strassmann to his immediate left flat-called. On the button, Jeffrey Hakim made it 22,000 - but Toth now re-popped for 55,500. Strassmann swiftly got out of the way, and after a little while, so did Hakim.

Glo and Queso

Just before the dinner break, Gloria pulled aside Jim "Mr_BigQueso" Collopy for a quick chat. It's Queso's 21st birthday today, and he talked about what it was like to taste his "very first" beer ever (we snap-call on that one), and his plans for dominating the American poker scene now that he's legal. Check out what Collopy had to say before he had amassed over 300,000 chips:

Tags: Jim CollopyMr_BigQueso

Play Resumes

We're back with the fifth level of the day. The plan is to play this level and the next one before calling it a night, and we should be getting awfully close to the money bubble by that point.

Level: 14

Blinds: 1,500/3,000

Ante: 300

Naud!

According to our roving reporter Gloria Balding, just before the break Arnaud Mattern got himself in a spot of bother.

There was a raise and a call ahead of him and Mattern reraised; when the original raiser shoved the original caller got out of the way but Mattern made the call.

Mattern's {A-?} {Q-?} was behind his opponent's {A-?} {K-?} from the start, and the {A-?} {K-?} made a four flush to boot. The hapless Mattern is down to just 40,000.

Tags: Arnaud Mattern