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€5,250 Championship Main Event
Day 2 Completed
2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague
€5,250 Championship Main Event
Day: 2
Event Info
2008 PokerStars.com EPT - Prague
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Buy-in
€5,000
Total Entries
570
Level
29
Blinds
40,000 / 80,000
Ante
8,000
Players Left 1 / 570
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Of course, official chip counts will be flying through cyberspace soon and will shortly grace PokerNews shores, but until then, feel free to absorb my prediction of Flying Fin Fredrik Nygard being the overnight chip leader, with Spanish duo Raul Mestre and Juan Maceiras not too far behind.
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against the 
of Brian Jensen. With his breath held, Carlier managed to survive a board of
to see his stack climb to 105,000. Jensen, meanwhile, slipped to 75,000.
All in with
, Martial Blangenwitsch was looking good for a double-through against Alexiou's 
, but a cruel 
board dealt out a below-the-belt blow and sent Blangenwitsch hurtling to the rail in 34th.
board and after a think, Fredrik Nygard made the call. On the river 
Maceiras set his opponent in and Nygard went into the tank. After only two minutes or so, Maceiras called, "Time," which caused a look of bemusement from one of their tablemates, who must have felt he hadn't had enough time yet. But as soon as Maceiras called for time, Nygard shot him a look and immediately called, flipping
and Maceiras mucked. Nygard allowed himself a little shout of joy as the half-million pot was sent his way.
Level: 17
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
against and missed. Then soon after, Daniel Biro pushed with 
and Mestre called with 
but the board came 
and the Hungarian doubled through. Mestre still has lots of chips, but is probably just around the 300,000 mark now instead of headier heights.
Most of those chips derived from his recent encounter with Pavel Blatny, where Lacay limped from the button with
before calling a raise from Blatny in the small blind.The
flop was a beauty for the Frenchman, who duly raised his opponent's leading bet. Blatny smooth-called.On the
turn, all the monies went in, Blatny probably confident about his 
before being shown Lacay's goodies. No assistance on the river, and the Czech was gone, leaving Lacay to start reconstructing the biggest stack of the tournament thus far.
