2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

€5,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 1b
Event Info

2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague

Final Results
Winner
Winning Hand
87
Prize
€774,000
Event Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Entries
570
Level Info
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
8,000

Bansai!

"Deuces AND Treys? Instacall!"
"Deuces AND Treys? Instacall!"
Double up for Praz Bansi after he called a raise preflop with {4-Clubs} {3-Clubs} and one of the blinds called also. The flop came down {8-Clubs} {3-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} and it was checked to Praz who bet 650. One of the blinds called and the original raiser folded. The turn was the {9-Clubs} and it was checked to Praz again, who bet 1,250 and he was called a second time. On the {2-Spades} river his opponent now set him in for his remaining chips and, after a dwell, Praz made the call and his opponent instantly mucked handing Praz the pot.

Tags: Praz Bansi

Eastgate Falls

Peter Eastgate is out. He raised preflop and Stuart Rutter made the call from the blinds. {A-?} {Q-?} {8-?} was the flop and Eastgate bet 1,000 after it was checked to him, Rutter made the call and then a call of 2,000 on the {3-?} turn. On the river {6-?} it was checked to Eastgate a third time who moved all-in for 7,750 and Rutter tanked as he barely covered the WSOP Champion. He made the call after a while tabling {A-?} {3-?} and Eastgate mucked, claiming he had {A-?} {K-?} and left the table.

Tags: Peter EastgateStuart Rutter

Barbosa Gets Rivered

Warsaw EPT winner Joao Barbosa has about 16,000 at the moment but for a rivered ace it would be easily over 20,000. He paid off a 3,000 on the river of a {7-Diamonds} {7-Spades} {10-Clubs} {3-Hearts} {A-Diamonds} board only to be shown {A-Clubs} {8-Clubs}. He shook his head and flipped {9-Spades} {9-Hearts} which was now no good.

Tags: Joao Barbosa

Moorman: "I'm Stupid."

Chris Moorman just came by, admitting, "I'm stupid."

He began to explain how he had raised preflop from early position with {Q-?} {J-?} and was called by an aggressive Scandinavian player in the blinds. The flop came {8-?} {7-?} {7-?} and Moorman bet 800 and was check-raised to 2,500. Moorman made the call and they saw the {10-?} on the turn where it was checked to him a second time. "I bet 3,200 when I really should've checked and he check-raised me all in and completely owned me."

Although still in, he's now down below his starting stack after a good start.

Tags: Chris Moorman

The Quiet King.

Without much fanfare, the WSOP Main Event winner Peter Eastgate is getting on with his favourite hobby . The Dane is a quiet figure amongst all the other players and seems quite happy to bask in the relative anonymity being at one of the tables away from the rail.

That is not to say he is not taking this tournament seriously, he raised a bet of 600 to 1,450 on a {K-Diamonds} {6-Hearts} {2-Diamonds} board before firing out 1,700 on the {K-Spades} turn and 5,000 on the {9-Spades} river. His opponent called the first of these bets but folded the river saying, "Nice bluff!"

Eastgate smiled back and said, "It was no bluff..."

Tags: Peter Eastgate

Level: 4

Blinds: 100/200

Ante: 0

Wolfed Down

Roland De Wolfe was just knocked out of the tournament leaving the tournament area as I was coming in.

"I had {K-?} {8-?} in the small blind on an {8-?} {8-?} {2-?} board, the limper had {2-?} {2-?}..."

No King or running pair for De Wolfe and he's gone.

Tags: Roland De Wolfe

Current Chip Counts

A few chip counts taken just after the break:

Antony Lellouche -- 24,000
Juha Helppi -- 18,825
Praz Bansi -- 17,350
William Thorson -- 16,200
Peter Eastgate -- 16,100
Davidi Kitai -- 16,000
Nenad Medic -- 15,250
Jan Boubli -- 13,500
Tomas Brolin -- 12,725
Mike McDonald -- 10,500
Chris Moorman -- 9,625
Roland de Wolfe -- 9,500
Alex Kravchenko -- 9,325
Dario Minieri -- 6,850
Marc Goodwin -- 6,600
Ben Grundy -- 5,250

Lellouche Starts Well

Antony Lellouche appears on almost every final table at the EPT these days, he's currently on 27,000 after flat-calling an early position raise with {A-?} {A-?} with a third person coming into the pot. On the {4-?} {5-?} {6-?} flop the original raiser bet 1,200, Lellouche made it 3,000 and the other player got out of the way. Now the raiser moved all-in and Lellouche called, up against {7-?} {7-?} the Frenchman had a few bullets to dodge but survived after the {J-?} turn and {4-?} river.

He's now on 27,000.