€4,350 EPT Budapest Main Event Day 2 | 2008 PokerStars.com EPT Budapest

10-30-2008 15:31 UTC+3

Double Ups

[user46392]

Among those who have been doing rather better than Moorman is Domenico Iannonne, who enjoyed a double up courtesy of Mads Wissing after flopping a straight with {9-Diamonds}

on a

board.

Another early doubler-upper is Albert Kirk Iversen, whose pocket threes came good against Thomas Krommer's pocket aces when a three came on the flop.

Tags: Albert Kirk Iversen Domenico Iannonne Mads Wissing Thomas Krommer

10-30-2008 15:28 UTC+3

Imre 'Firesnake' Alfoldi (Poker News qualifier from Hungary) was short-stacked for most of Day 1, but somehow, he managed to hang on and advance to Day 2. The bad news was that he began Day 2 as the shortest stack remaining in the tournament. Although he outlasted about a dozen or so other players, he just busted out.

Firesnake moved all in from the button for his last 800. The small blind and big blind both called and checked it down. The board ran out {J-Clubs}

. Firesnake held {10-Diamonds}

. Francesco Cirianni from the big blind won the pot with {K-Clubs}

and Firesnake was eliminated.

10-30-2008 15:25 UTC+3

Cooler for Chris Moorman

[user46392]

As expected, the early action has been fast and furious, with the shorter stacks not in the slightest bit shy to get their chips in the middle in hope of a double up.

In a raised pot, Chris Moorman, Luca Pagano and Benjamin Lebor saw an {8-Hearts}

flop. It checked around to Lebor who bet 6,000. Pagano folded, but Lebor called, and he was behind.

Lebor: {J-Hearts}

Moorman:

Turn:

"Flush!" called Lebor.

River: {5-Hearts}

Lebor: "WOAH! UNBELIEVABLE!"

Indeed Lebor had made runner-runner flush, and Moorman was out, shaking his head. Lebor turned to Luca Pagano next to him: "Sorry about that, boy, I'm not usually a screamer."

Tags: Benjamin Lebor Chris Moorman Luca Pagano

10-30-2008 15:24 UTC+3

William Thorson Eliminated

[user24788]

Shortstacked William Thorson was among the first round of eliminations on Day 2. The Team PokerStars pro has left the building.

Tags: William Thorson

Level: 9

Blinds: 400/800

Ante: 100

10-30-2008 15:02 UTC+3

Cards in the Air

[user24788]

10-30-2008 14:52 UTC+3

Action Starting Soon

[user24788]

Day 2 will begin in a couple of minutes. 182 players are taking their seats. Stay tuned...

10-30-2008 13:08 UTC+3

How Are the Hungarians Doing?

[user24788]

Milan Andrejkovics talks to Tibor Tolnai on Day 1b

In case you were wondering, 71 Hungarians bought into the PokerStars.com EPT Budapest. Only 21 of them advanced to Day 2. Zoltan Toth leads the way with a shade under 60,000.

Here are the Hungarians who will start Day 2:

Zoltan Toth 59,600
Milan Andrejkovics 53,600
Lajos Laszlo 50,700
David Hovath 31,800
Tibor Toth 28,400
Szabolcs Attila Saskoy 28,300
Tamas Karikas 23,800
Tibor Tolnai 22,300
Balazs Csermely 21,000
Tibor Benko 20,400
Peter Gelencser 19,400
Peter Kamaras 19,300
Robert Schatz 16,600
Krisztian Obal 16,100
Denes Kalo 15,800
Viktoria Szilasi 15,400
Peter Majoros 11,800
Istvan Schreiber 7,900
Peter Zakhar 6,100
Imre Styevlik 5,600
Imre "Firesnake" Alfoldi 2,800

Tags: Milan Andrejkovics Tibor Tolnai

10-30-2008 05:40 UTC+3

PokerStars.com EPT Budapest Day 2 Begins

[user46392]

Hello and welcome back to the comforting confines of the Las Vegas Casino, Budapest, where a grand total of 182 survivors from Days 1a and 1b will be getting down to the serious business of battling it out for poker supremacy and a share of the €2,128,000 prize pool.

Hoary-haired Italian Mauro Corsetti leads the pack, but he shouldn't feel too complacent as the Norwegian wunderkind Annette Obrestad and EPT title holder Arnaud Mattern are hot on his heels. Other notables who made it safely over all the Day 1 hurdles include French veteran Paul Testud, French whippersnapper Ludovic Lacay, always-the-bridesmaid-never-the-bride Johnny Lodden and EPT Live's own siren of the exit interview, Kara Scott.

The full list of Day 2 starters is below; join us here at Pokernews from 1pm local time to see who makes the money and who gets themselves a few days in Budapest with nothing much to do.

Day 2 Starting Chip Counts:
Mauro Corsetti 136,200
Annette Obrestad 101,300
Arnaud Mattern 90,600
Christoph Haller 86,100
Pierre Husson 76,100
Sorel Mizzi 74,900
Johnny Lodden 70,000
Paul Testud 66,500
Ionel Anton 64,800
Nicolo Calia 62,900
Jari Pekka Juhola 61,700
Praz Bansi 60,800
Zoltan Toth 59,600
Dwayne Stacey 58,600
Robin Keston 57,300
Tristan Clemengon 54,700
Hans Ritburg 54,000
Milan Andrejkovics 53,600
Lukas Benkovic 53,000
Aditya Agarwal 52,800
Robert Andersson 52,600
Benjamin Lebor 51,800
Brooke Hoerr 51,600
William Fry 50,900
Lajos Laszlo 50,700
Marcellino Terracciano 50,100
Thomas Krommer 49,800
Ivo Donev 49,300
Mikael Norinder 48,100
Micha Hoedemaker 47,900
Fintan Gavin 47,100
Dave Hardy 46,000
Casey Kastle 45,600
Pantelis Pavlis 45,100
Janek Schleicher 45,000
Oliver Bosch 44,100
Frederic Magen 42,100
Frederik Brink Jensen 41,900
Severin Walser 41,500
Christoffer Sonesson 41,200
Jean Philippe Rohr 41,100
Laurence Houghton 41,000
Ofer Golko 40,500
Marino Serenelli 40,400
Alexander Kravchenko 39,100
Joseph Rutkai 38,000
Alexander Soderlund 37,900
Mikhail Lakhitov 36,900
Danny Ryan 36,400
Christophe Benzimara 36,200
William Haughey 35,800
[Removed:133] 35,100
Markus Kolb 35,000
Ludovic Lacay 34,700
Peter Zamiska 34,300
Alp Okumus 34,200
Claudio Cecchi 34,200
Sebastian Saffari 34,100
Allan Baekke 32,900
Symeon Pyrakis 32,600
David Hovath 31,800
Albert Kirk Iversen 31,300
Christophe Wemelbeke 30,900
Stefano Fiore 30,700
Antonio Karman 30,600
Simeon Tsonev 29,700
Rikard Englund 29,600
Andreas Krause 29,500
Tommi Etelapera 29,400
Martin Jacobson 29,300
Philipp Roch 29,300
Geoffrey Balme 28,900
Pasquale Braco 28,800
Jeppe Nielsen 28,600
Artur Wasek 28,600
Patrick Guintrand 28,400
Tibor Toth 28,400
Szabolcs Attila Saskoy 28,300
Ciprian Hrisca 27,700
Ricardo Pinto De Sousa 27,600
Johannes Olsson 26,700
David Jaoui 26,300
Ilkka Koskinen 26,200
Danny Rasmussen 26,200
Mario Puccini 26,000
Cerpedes Raphael 25,900
Alexandar Emilov 25,700
Christopher Moorman 25,600
Robert Altman 25,500
Ramzi Jelassi 25,300
Dan Murariu 25,000
Fabrice Leclerq 24,600
Thomas Ronnie Bihl 24,500
Christian Oman 24,000
Alessandro Longobardi 23,900
Tamas Karikas 23,800
Hans Fest 23,800
Christopher Bush 23,700
Gesie Bason 23,600
Massimiliano Patroncini 23,600
Luca Pagano 23,500
Daniel Sandu 23,500
Denis Volkov 23,300
Pier Luigi Scatola 23,100
Andreas Altmeyer 23,000
Christian Fredrik Bonde 22,900
Tibor Tolnai 22,300
Andrea Benelli 22,300
Mads Wissing 21,600
Nicholas Maieritsch 21,100
Balazs Csermely 21,000
Kara Scott 20,500
Tibor Benko 20,400
Domenico Iannonne 20,300
Jesper Hoog 20,300
Daniele Mazzia 19,600
Michael Tureniec 19,500
Peter Gelencser 19,400
Peter Kamaras 19,300
Claudio Pagano 18,500
Darren Hope 18,200
Manutschehr Parsian 17,900
Wandel Gerd 17,800
Guido Meacci 17,600
Korotkov Oleg 17,300
Oscar Blanco Carrasco 17,300
Francesco Cirianni 17,200
Andrey Daniluk 17,200
Robert Schatz 16,600
Beniamino Speroni 16,500
Michele Puzzoni 16,500
Krisztian Obal 16,100
Mohamed Azam Razab Sekh 16,000
Denes Kalo 15,800
Martijn Gerrits 15,800
Timo Ojala 15,700
Anders Johansson 15,500
Menno Antonius Bussinik 15,400
Viktoria Szilasi 15,400
Gino Alacqua 15,300
Annio De Muro 15,300
Martin Smyth 14,800
Tom Sigmond 14,800
Kerry Taylor 14,700
Eric Rabl 14,300
Ofir Abramovivi 14,300
Salvatore Soricaro 14,000
Thomas Vestergaard 12,800
Maurizio Carra 12,700
Claudio Rinaldi 12,700
Max Conrad 12,700
Johannes Strassmann 12,600
Peter Majoros 11,800
George McKeever 11,700
Daniel Stern 11,600
Loris Brunelli 10,800
Robert Firestone 10,600
Jecek Ladny 10,600
Massimiliano Rosa 10,100
Tiago Lopes 9,900
Nicolas Dymling 9,300
Ronnie Gustafsson 9,300
Geir Berge Torsvik 9,100
Claus Uhrskov 9,100
Mathieu Albano 8,500
Carlos Miranda 8,300
Alan Smurfit 8,200
Mads Hoybye Madsen 8,100
Derek Morris 8,000
Pawel Cmiel 7,900
Istvan Schreiber 7,900
David Nordh Paananem 7,900
Andrew Barta 7,000
Mickael Sebban 6,400
Sergio Di Gaetanoi 6,200
Peter Zakhar 6,100
Imre Styevlik 5,600
Giuseppe Festa 4,400
Miroslaw Klys 3,700
William Thorson 3,400
Simone Dambrosi 3,200
Imre Alfoldi 2,800