Level: 4
Blinds: 150/300
Ante: 0
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2010 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€2,935,000
Entries
587
Level
32
Blinds
150,000 / 300,000
Ante
0
Shush!!!!!
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Did we say yesterday was quiet? Well table 4 is like a morgue. The man bossing the table at the moment is Peter Bosen who is one of the early contenders with a chip stack of ~110,000.
We caught him playing a hand, very quietly, with fellow countryman Andrew Schneider.
Schneider opened the action from late position to 550 and Bosen made the three-bet from the small blind throwing out 1,850 in colour. Schneider made the call and we saw a Heads Up flop of 
. Bosen bet 2,700. Schneider with a stack of ~30,000 made the call. The turn was 
and Bosen checked. Schneider bet 5,100. Bosen stroked his hair, peeked at his cards, stared at Schneider who was just staring at the flop and then made the fold.
The Dealer quietly pushed the chips towards Schneider who quietly stacked them.
Assorted Chip Counts from the Far Room
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000 | |
|
58,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
||
|
44,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
|
43,000
6,400
|
6,400 |
|
39,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
|
39,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
|
||
|
38,000
1,400
|
1,400 |
|
|
||
|
36,000 | |
|
36,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
32,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
31,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
||
|
30,700
700
|
700 |
|
30,200
200
|
200 |
|
30,000 | |
|
29,500
-500
|
-500 |
|
|
||
|
|
29,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
28,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
|
|
||
|
28,000
-2,000
|
-2,000 |
|
26,000
1,800
|
1,800 |
|
|
||
|
26,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
26,000
-4,000
|
-4,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
23,500
-6,500
|
-6,500 |
|
23,000
500
|
500 |
|
|
||
|
21,500
7,500
|
7,500 |
|
||
|
20,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
|
|
||
The Tournament in Numbers
By the by, with registration now closed the numbers are fixed and we can announce that we have almost doubled the field of the last EPT held in Vienna.
Our Day 1b field officially numbers 353 players packed into the Kursalon ballrooms, bringing the overall total to 587. When Pascal Perrault won this event back in Season 1, there were just 297 runners.
Prize pool information will follow shortly.
Some Tea Time Photos
A few photos for you to enjoy while you eat your tea!
Shrewd Testud Saves Set-over-set Stack
Tournament veterans Rob Hollink and Paul Testud just ran into one another with results which had their entire table murmuring. Unfortunately I missed the earlier rounds of betting, but have to conclude from the fact that stacks weren't over lines that there had been at least one or two streets checked.
Either way the pot couldn't have been more than 10k with the board standing 
. Hollink had bet 5k and Testud was considering this, taking his time before calling.
Hollink showed 
, his set ahead of Testud's 
!
Living Beyond His Benyamines
We found David Benyamine betting 3,000 on an 
flop and getting one call behind. The other two players who had made it to the flop both folded, leaving Benaymine and his opponent to go heads up to the turn.
Both players checked the turn and Benyamine checked again on the river before finding himself facing a 5,025 bet from his opponent. Benyamine, with just 11,500 or so left to his name, spent a while stacking and restacking his chips, eventually stacking them all into one single stack which made it look as though he might go all in - but instead he flat called, and then promptly mucked to his opponent's .
Benyamine is now in trouble with just 6,500.
Game Over for Ludo
It's not been a terribly good day for the French so far. After ElkY's demise early in the day, we have now also lost his fellow Frenchie Ludovic Lacay.
We understand that Lacay's demise came after a three-way all in showdown on a 
flop. Lacay held 
for an up and down straight draw, and he was up against one player's pocket aces and another's set of nines. Lacay could not get lucky, and the EPT Warsaw finalist hit the rail.
Collopy Back to Square One
In a good way though - he just doubled through to around 30k with on a 
board. He had to wait a good while, however, for his 10k bet on the river to be paid off - but wait patiently he did and eventually he got the call, the muck and the payoff.
Meanwhile all the chips on the table seem to have gravitated to Daniel Drescher (pictured)- he's now over 120,000 and probably our chip leader in the second half of Level 4.
Assorted Counts from the Closer Room
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
80,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
|
64,400
18,400
|
18,400 |
|
|
||
|
50,000
18,000
|
18,000 |
|
|
||
|
45,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
|
||
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
40,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
|
||
|
36,500 | |
|
|
||
|
32,500 | |
|
|
||
|
29,500
-500
|
-500 |
|
|
||
|
27,000
-800
|
-800 |
|
23,000
-22,000
|
-22,000 |
|
22,500
-500
|
-500 |
|
|
||
|
17,000
-13,000
|
-13,000 |
|
|
||
|
16,800
-13,200
|
-13,200 |
|
10,000
-20,000
|
-20,000 |
|
|
||
|
9,500
-25,700
|
-25,700 |