€5,300 Main Event Day 1b | 2014 PokerStars.net EPT Vienna

03-24-2014 20:45 UTC+2

Various Chips Counts from Around the Room

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Stefan Zollinger	105,000 105,000	105,000
Sergio Castelluccio	80,000 80,000	80,000
Michiel Brummelhuis	65,000 3,000	3,000
David Vamplew	60,000 15,000	15,000

Pratyush Buddiga	55,000 25,000	25,000
Johnny Lodden	50,000

Liv Boeree	46,000 31,000	31,000

Martin Finger	40,000 40,000	40,000

Viktor Blom	37,000 7,000	7,000

Jason Wheeler	35,000 1,000	1,000
Philipp Gruissem	35,000 5,000	5,000
Kitty Kuo	28,000 -6,000	-6,000

Ana Marquez	27,000 -3,000	-3,000
Mikalai Pobal	26,000 26,000	26,000

Toby Lewis	26,000 10,000	10,000

Maxim Lykov	25,000 -3,000	-3,000

Matthias Brandner	12,000 -18,000	-18,000

Griffin Benger	5,000 5,000	5,000
Alexey Levin	Busted
Thomas Lipburger	Busted
Marco Lang	Busted
Robert Agayan	Busted
Stefan Vagner	Busted
Jorn Walthaus	Busted
Natalie Hof	Busted

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03-24-2014 20:43 UTC+2

Van den Bijgaart and Shallow Collide Again

Webjoker

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Dave Shallow opened under the gun to 900 and Van den Bijgaart made the call in the hijack. Bernabeu Guilabert squeezed from the button making it 4,025. Both blinds folded but Shallow and Van den Bijgaart made the call.

Both Shallow and Van den Bijgaart checked to Guilabert on but the Spaniard checked behind. The on the turn made Shallow bet out 9,500 and just Van den Bijgaart called, Guilabert folded.

The river was a third spade; . Shallow asked Van den Bijgaart to lift his arm so he could eye his stack. Van den Bijgaart had about 42,000 left at this point and without much hesitation Shallow bet 21,500.

Van den Bijgaart clearly wasn't happy with the river and the big bet by Shallow. The Dutch pro tanked for about four minutes before reluctantly calling.

Shallow showed the first, setting up the perfect way to slowroll. It wasn't going to be one though, Shallow revealed the to accompany the nut-flush draw blocker for nothing but ace-king high.

Van den Bijgaart tabled and took down the pot.

Player	Chips	Progress
Joep van den Bijgaart	93,000 37,000	37,000
Dave Shallow	44,000

Tags: Joep van den Bijgaart Dave Shallow

03-24-2014 20:37 UTC+2

Hansen Faces Tough Challengers

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Full Tilt's Professional Gus Hansen showed up late, as usual, and on top of that he's also facing two extremely tough opponents. Hansen, one of the most famous poker players in the world, has $11.2 million in live tournament earnings which puts him first on the Danish all-time money list and 15th overall in the world.

Hansen was one of the first European players to have big results in the United States including a three World Poker Tour victories. The Great Dane's first WPT win came back in 2002 when he won the $10,000 Five Diamond for $556,460. Hansen beat a final table with stars like John Juanda, Freddy Deeb, John Hennigan, Scott Nguyen and he's been a star ever since.

The EPT however has not been kind to Hansen who last cashed in an EPT Main Event back in 2005 when he made the final table in Barcelona. Hansen has just two EPT cashes, and a deep run here would look great on his very international list of cashes.

Hansen's battling it out with Dutch poker pro Michiel Brummelhuis who made the most recent World Series of Poker Main Event final table. Brummelhuis finished seventh for $1.2 million and that puts him in sixth on the Dutch all-time money list.

The second challenger is Shyam Srinivasan, S_dor111 on PokerStars, who's got $7.2 million in online winnings and a sixth place finish in the 2014 PCA for $328,020.

Right now Hansen sits on about 21,000 chips and we'll keep a close eye on the super stars the rest of the day.

Player	Chips	Progress
Michiel Brummelhuis	62,000 28,200	28,200
Shyam Srinivasan	38,000 8,000	8,000
Gus Hansen	21,000 21,000	21,000

Tags: Gus Hansen Michiel Brummelhuis Shyam Srinivasan

03-24-2014 20:27 UTC+2

Lang Cold Five-Bets

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Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Gaelle Baumann opened for 600 and was three-bet by the player directly to her left, Csaba Varadi, to 1,725. Ivan Neytchev was on the button and made it 4,800 with the cold four-bet. Marco Lang, a PokerStars player from Canada, was in the small blind and had a long think. With so much action behind he had a lot to weigh up and eventually decided to raise to 9,100. Sam Trickett folded the big blind and one by one the other players folded until it got back round to Neytchev on the button. He eyed up Lang and decided to make the call. They both had similar stacks, around 40,000.

The flop was

Lang checked. Neytchev made it 8,000 and when Lang responded with a raise to 20,000 he moved all in. Lang made the call. The cards were on their backs with Neytchev showing the against the of Lang. The turn and river meant that Neytchev more than doubled up and Lang was left almost crippled.

Player	Chips	Progress
Ivan Neytchev	70,000 70,000	70,000
Marco Lang	4,500 4,500	4,500

03-24-2014 20:17 UTC+2

EPT10 Vienna: Eureka Poker Tour Main Event Champion Zoltan Gal

Chad Holloway

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Zoltan Gal defeated a total field of 1,432 in the Eureka Poker Tour Vienna Main Event for a top prize of more than €240,000. Kristy speaks to him just after his win.

https://www.pokernews.com/video/ept10-vienna-eureka-poker-tour-main-event-champion-zoltan-ga-8538.htm

03-24-2014 20:16 UTC+2

Chip Counts

Happy_Freaked

Level 6 : 200/400, 50 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Jamila von Perger	102,000 72,000	72,000
Kevin MacPhee (Kevin McPhee)	78,000
Nicolas Chouity	58,000

Andrew Chen	52,000 24,000	24,000
Robin Ylitalo	52,000 18,000	18,000

Simeon Naydenov	41,000 11,000	11,000
Pratyush Buddiga	30,000
Jeff Hakim	14,000

Level: 6

Blinds: 200/400

Ante: 50

03-24-2014 20:13 UTC+2

Katchalov Eliminates Paus

Chad Holloway

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

A short-stacked Dominik Paus, who hails from Germany, got his stack all in preflop holding pocket sevens. Unfortunately for him, Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov woke up with . Paus was looking to improve, but instead it was Katchalov's hand that got better as the board ran out with both paint and an ace to give him a Broadway straight!

Player	Chips	Progress
Eugene Katchalov	55,000 10,500	10,500

Dominik Paus	Busted

Tags: Eugene Katchalov Dominik Paus

03-24-2014 20:08 UTC+2

Badugi Boss Man Brandner Takes On Vienna

Chad Holloway

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

Matthias "mati312" Brandner, aka Mr Badugi. Photo courtesy of the PokerStars Blog.

Hometown hero Matthias “mati312” Brandner talks to PokerStars Blog about Badugi (which he bosses in the $50/$100 games) and the one place you absolutely must go if you visit Vienna. Find out more by clicking here.

Tags: PokerStars Blog

03-24-2014 20:02 UTC+2

Some Level 5 Eliminations

Chad Holloway

Level 5 : 150/300, 25 ante

Player	Chips	Progress
Dimitrios Barmpathanasis	Busted
Felix Kurmayr	Busted
Ailo Sara Hegge	Busted
Manuel Gleissner	Busted
Blazej Przygorzewski	Busted
Michael Palauschek	Busted
Axel Stein	Busted
Rui Ferreira	Busted
Georgy Filippovich	Busted
Oleg Vasylchenko	Busted
Ronny Voth	Busted
Henri Kasper	Busted
Glen Cymbaluk	Busted
Patryk Poterek	Busted
Markus Feurle	Busted
Matthew Lapossie	Busted
Keith Johnson	Busted
Ngo The Duc	Busted
Harry Law	Busted
Sasa Zorc	Busted
Martin Merz	Busted
Besnik Lalinovci	Busted
Anton Smirnov	Busted
Uladzimir Zaharau	Busted
Daniel Ghionoiu	Busted

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