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2011 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
2011 PokerStars.com EPT Prague
Buy-in
€5,000
Prize Pool
€3,501,700
Entries
722
Level
32
Blinds
80,000 / 160,000
Ante
20,000
One Liv B Eliminated, One Left
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
We just saw Olivier "LivB" Busquet head off into the fray as a recent casualty of this Day 2. That's disappointing, but at least the other Liv B -- Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree -- is still alive and kicking. She's doing rather werll too, above the average with close to 150,000 chips.
Saenko vs. Wheeler
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
From under the gun, Jason Wheeler raised to 2,300. Andrey Saenko reraised from middle position to 7,100 and play folded back to Wheeler. He called and the flop came down 
. Wheeler checked and Saenko bet 9,500. Wheeler gave it some thought, but folded in the end and Saenko won the pot.
Adeniya Folds Turn
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
On the 
flop, William Thorson and [Removed:273] checked before Marcel Bjerkmann bet 10,500. Martins Adeniya called and then Thorson and Casals folded.
The turn was the 
and Bjerkmann bet 24,500. After a minute in the tank, Adeniya gave it up and dropped to 67,000 in chips.
Tough Tables
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
As the field is quickly shrunken, a few tough tables are starting to form.
They're breaking high to low, so we'll start in the same fashion. Table 33 has Grayson Ramage, Johnny Lodden, and Lex Veldhuis right in a row in Seats 2-4.
Table 31 holds Anton Wigg (Seat 2), Dag Palovic (4), and Chris Moorman (8), but we'd expect to see that table break before the end of the level, too.
Moving across to the low tables, we've got a few groupings that figure to be together for a while. At Table 12, we find Max Silver (4), Dmitry Stelmak (7), and Dermot Blain (9). Table 11 right behind it has Ville Wahlbeck (1), Jonathan Duhamel (3), and Dominik Nitsche (6).
Table 9 is a particularly tough place to play right now, probably the leader in the Table of Death nominations. There, we find Eoghan O'Dea (2), Tino Lechich (3), Jean-Philippe Rohr (7), and the Gus Hansen (8).
Finally, at Table 4, we've got Oleksandr Vaserfirer (1), ElkY (5), Jungleman (7), and Russell Carson (8).
Yikes!
Updated Chip Counts
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
220,000
42,900
|
42,900 |
|
190,000
81,300
|
81,300 |
|
||
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154,000
32,500
|
32,500 |
|
|
||
|
145,000
49,100
|
49,100 |
|
138,000
138,000
|
138,000 |
|
104,000
62,500
|
62,500 |
|
|
||
|
87,000
-66,000
|
-66,000 |
|
80,000
-23,800
|
-23,800 |
|
78,000
31,400
|
31,400 |
|
|
||
|
76,500
76,500
|
76,500 |
|
70,000
17,400
|
17,400 |
|
||
|
65,000
-40,600
|
-40,600 |
|
65,000
40,900
|
40,900 |
|
|
||
|
59,000
-5,800
|
-5,800 |
|
50,000
27,600
|
27,600 |
|
|
||
|
45,000
-20,500
|
-20,500 |
|
42,000 | |
|
40,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
38,000 | |
|
|
||
|
34,000
-8,000
|
-8,000 |
|
|
||
|
32,000
2,100
|
2,100 |
|
30,000
-63,900
|
-63,900 |
|
26,000
-11,400
|
-11,400 |
|
26,000
-24,800
|
-24,800 |
|
25,000
4,900
|
4,900 |
|
|
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Pictures of People
For the second time this level, Neil Stoddart has proven himself handy with a camera.
Um... Chip Leader!
On the last walk past Liv Boeree, we noticed that she's increased her stack by about 100,000 -- all the way up over 275,000! We'll try to get some details during the upcoming break, but for now, it looks like we have a new chip leader.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
280,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
|
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Break Time
Level 10
: 500/1,000, 100 ante
It's another 15 minutes, and we'll be back shortly.
Two From Before the Break
During the break, we heard news of the demise of Vladimir Geshkenbein. Word on the street is he ran pocket queens into Andrey Saenko's pocket aces to end his day earlier than he'd hoped.
We also watched a pot play out between Ramez Haddad and Jude Ainsworth. There was a raise and two callers in front of Ainsworth, and he made a three-bet from the small blind. Haddad had been the first of the two flat-callers, and he reraised all in for about 65,000 when it came back to him. Ainsworth made the call, and the cards were on their backs.
Showdown
Haddad: 
Ainsworth: 
Ainsworth flopped a flush draw on the 
, but he could not catch up on the 
turn or 
river. Haddad has doubled, and the two are essentially even in chips now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
138,000
-13,700
|
-13,700 |
|
|
||
|
135,000
36,100
|
36,100 |
|
Busted | |
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