€4,350 EPT Budapest Main Event Day 1a | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Budapest

10-28-2008 22:41 UTC+2

I've Got the Cournut's

[Removed:133] has knocked out an opponent, calling his preflop shove and finding himself very much in the lead with {J-Hearts}

against his opponent's {4-Diamonds}

. The board came down {3-Spades}

and Cournut's opponent put his hood up and stalked off, while the TD scampered after him, calling, "Excuse me! Excuse me!" to no avail.

10-28-2008 22:24 UTC+2

What looked to be a swift and clinical split pot for short-stacked Nick Maieritsch turned out rather nicer as he made the first royal flush of the tournament to double up to around 10,000.

Maieritsch: {A-Diamonds}

Opponent:

Flop:

Maieritsch: "Ooh!"

Turn: {J-Diamonds}

Maieritsch: "Oh yes!"

River: {Q-Diamonds}

Maieritsch: "AH HA HA HA!"

TD: "Er, we have a royal flush on table seven... Can someone make... Oh no, is too late, never mind."

Tags: Mick Maieritsch

10-28-2008 22:17 UTC+2

109 Remaining

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The final level of Day 1a is underway. At the current rate of eliminations, there will be around 90 players or so who will advance to Day 2.

10-28-2008 22:17 UTC+2

Get Set, Go! All In

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Stefano Fiore won a pot quietly -- it seems the shouting and running around is only for when the chips go in preflop. This time he made it as far as the turn, getting all his chips in with the board reading {J-Spades}

. His opponent folded {A-?}

with no spades face-up, and Fiore showed him pocket sixes for a set.

Tags: Stefano Fiore

Level: 8

Blinds: 300/600

Ante: 75

10-28-2008 22:03 UTC+2

Annette Passes 50K

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Annette Obrestad added more chips to her stack when she flushed out an opponent. She passed the 50,000 chip mark and is closing in on Arnaud Mattern who is back up to 70,000.

10-28-2008 22:01 UTC+2

Current Chip Counts

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Specially selected and counted for our readers:

Ramzi Jelassi: 9,225
Paul Testud: 32,000
Stefano Fiore: 18,000
Arnaud Mattern: 55,000
Sorel Mizzi: 26,000
Benjamin Kang: 20,000
Ludovic Lacay: 36,000
Mikael Norinder: 40,000
Andreas Krause: 28,000
Luca Pagano: 30,000

10-28-2008 21:51 UTC+2

Patric Martensson Eliminated

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Patric Martensson will not pass "Go." The former Swedish Monopoly champion is out.

10-28-2008 21:39 UTC+2

Annette Obrestad = 40K

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The Norwegian wunderkind Annette Obrestad seems to be doing quite well. She's the chip leader at her table with a 42,000 stack. She's among the overall chip leaders and trying to catch Arnaud Mattern, who slipped to 50,000.

10-28-2008 21:35 UTC+2

Camel Gets the Hump

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Keith "Camel" Hawkins is a goner. He'd been sitting on a minuscule stack for at least a couple levels, and his end came when shoved his mere 2,150 in under the gun. A reraise from another player got rid of everyone else, and they were on their proverbial backs.

Camel: {A-Diamonds}