Fusing two of the great sporting pursuits, poker and boxing, has to happen, right? The PokerStars Blog asks some of the champs who they think would come out on top.
Charlotte Van Brabander is playing her first EPT Main Event here in Berlin. She's an ex-gamer, turned poker pro, so we get to know her a little better.
The production crew have been kind enough to provide us with chip counts from the feature table even if they won't let us have access to it so we can report some action for you!
Tournament poker is not always about firing three barrels, running huge bluffs and making hero calls. Sometimes hands play out very simply indeed.
Ana Marquez saw the action fold to her in the hijack and she made it 4,500 to play. Peter Turmezey was on the button and he three-bet to 11,800 without much pause for thought and when the action was back on marquez she passed her cards back to the dealer.
About 90-minutes ago Sebastian Winkler looked like a man who was about to descend into the dark abyss that often claims the tournament lives of players who are on tilt after he lost out to Anton Wigg. You can read about that here.
In that post we said he needed to quickly regain his composure and it appears to have taken our advice, cooled down and started playing poker again because we just saw him on a new table laughing and joking with a new stack of 157,000. Well played that man.
