That is the end of Day 1A of a brand new EPT season at a brand new location. 181 players started today in the Swissotel in beautiful Tallinn. Amongst the players were Vanessa Selbst, making her EPT debut as a Team Pokerstars Pro member as well as Arnaud Mattern (nursing a injured leg still) and Annette Obrestad.
Neither of the two ladies managed to make it through the day, Obrestad busting just before the end when she flopped a flush but lost out when her opponent managed to make a bigger flush on the river.
After a strong WSOP series, the Brits were hoping to make a good impression in the EPT but both bracelet winner Praz Bansi and Irish Open champion James Mitchell were among the early casualties, however the talented Javed Abrahams made it through.
Russian Matvey Linov lead the tournament for much of the day, his relentless aggression affording him a huge stack, but he was pipped by the end of play by Ali Tekintamgac. The German won the WPT in Barcelona in May and racked up an astonishing 203,200 in chips by the end of play, leaving him as the only player to pass the 200,000 mark.
Tomorrow we'll restart all over again with Dario Minieri and ElkY amongst those doing battle. Play will begin at 12pm (GMT+2) and the Pokernews Live Reporting Team will once more be bringing you all the action!
Annette Obrestad and Mauro Palazzo went heads up to a raised flop, and it fell . Obrestad check-raised to around 5,500, and Palazzo shipped in his 60k stack. Obrestad called all in for about 45,000. She turned over for a flopped flush. Palazzo had the second nut draw with . Palazzo binked another club to eliminate Annette minutes before the end of the night. While the players at his table tried to contain their puzzlement over the hand, Palazzo looked quite pleased with himself as he stacked up 136,300.
Luca Pagano has had more cashes than anyone else in EPT history and is already making good progress towards the first of Season 7 of the EPT. Pagano just pushed all-in for 66,500 on a flop against a 25,000 bet from Oleksii Zharko to make the Russian fold. Pagano has hit the six-figure mark and now sits with around 100,000.
Finnish baseball cap enthusiast Seppo Parkkinen has had the craziest of days. Virtually every time we stroll by his table he's busy getting his whole stack in, and has been up and down more violently than the evil ride at the top of the Stratosphere in Las Vegas (note - if you are not already familiar with the Big Shot's work, our advice is not to even go there).
Anyway, this time the action got going on a flop. Parkkinen checked to Javed Abrahams, who bet 10,000. Parkkinen went all in, Abrahams called, and they turned the cards over.
Parkkinen:
Abrahams: drawing extremely thin with
Turn:
River:
Parkkinen enjoyed a full double up to over 90,000. The luckless Abrahams dropped back to 60,000.
After slipping a little after dinner, Matvey Linov has regained the chip lead.
We found his opponent betting out 15,000 on the river of a board. Linov made the call, and the bettor turned over for a pair of fives. Linov flipped for a pair of sixes and the pot was his, winner and loser alike chuckling at their meagre holdings.
A few minutes after losing a big pot to Jeff Sarwer, Ivan Demidov was back in action. He raised preflop, and Adam Radocz three-bet to 6,000. Demidov moved all in for a total of 40,500, and Radocz considered the math and made the call.
Demidov:
Radocz:
The board came , and Demidov doubled up with ace-high. "Welcome back," Sarwer told him.
Radocz was left with exactly 500. After paying the ante, he got his 400 in next hand with . Eddie Tasbas isolated with . "One time!" Tasbas called jokingly. And indeed, he got his one time. The flop fell , giving Tasbas quads. "Why did I waste my one time?" he lamented as Radocz made his exit.
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. Obrestad check-raised to around 5,500, and Palazzo shipped in his 60k stack. Obrestad called all in for about 45,000. She turned over 
for a flopped flush. Palazzo had the second nut draw with 
. Palazzo binked another club to eliminate Annette minutes before the end of the night. While the players at his table tried to contain their puzzlement over the hand, Palazzo looked quite pleased with himself as he stacked up 136,300.
held against Bar-Yosef's 
on a 
board.
flop against a 25,000 bet from Oleksii Zharko to make the Russian fold. Pagano has hit the six-figure mark and now sits with around 100,000.
flop. Parkkinen checked to Javed Abrahams, who bet 10,000. Parkkinen went all in, Abrahams called, and they turned the cards over.
board. Linov made the call, and the bettor turned over 
for a pair of sixes and the pot was his, winner and loser alike chuckling at their meagre holdings.
. Eddie Tasbas isolated with